Letter to the Daily News by Richard Sherman (Florida) criticizing the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism for denying Zionism’s roots in Torah and exemplifying self-hating Jews – Oct 27, 2025

Andrue Kahn, Executive Director of the virulently anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism, incongruously denies the reality that Zionism was birthed 3500 years ago with the creation of the Jewish Bible - the SOLE source of Judaism. (" Jews Differ on Both Zionism and Mandami"). That Jewish Bible has only ONE foundational narrative: the Jewish people's Return to Zion - what today is Israel. It is not complicated. Zionism has been Judaism for 3500 years. That is why Jerusalem is mentioned 659 times in the Jewish Bible. That is why for 2000 years at the conclusion of the Passover sedar Jews stand and loudly and proudly pray the ultimate Zionist prayer: " Next Year in Jerusalem!"

Kahn''s antiZionism as recently described by historian Ben M. Freeman is " antithetical to Jewishness.....Jews have internalized Jew-hate for thousands of years. Antizionism exemplifies this process in action in our times.  It is perhaps the ultimate expression of internalized jew hate. Today antiZionist Jews aren't content to simply reject Israel. Today, they deploy their Jewishness as a weapon to provide a sheen of respectability and legitimacy to Jew- hate focused on Israel. In other words, they kosher antizionism. Antizionism is an illogical position for Jews to take. After all, who are Jews without Israel? Who are ANY indigenous people without their native lands? It is impossible to separate Jews from Israel. We must be clear to those Jews who are so warped by Jew-hate that they shed this connection. They have strayed too far, and unless they make amends they have no place among us. We may be diverse in our practices and beliefs, but anti Zionism is simply not a legitimate expression of Jewish identity....(" The Jews. An Indigenous People", Ben M Freeman, 2025, page 243).

Also, New York Times columnist Brett Stephens has recently  made clear the complete ahistorical "foundation" of antiZionism:

"Whatever else it is, Jewish nationalism — that is, Zionism — is the oldest continuous anticolonial movement in history, starting well before the Romans sought to de-Judaize the area by calling their Levantine colony Palestina. Hanukkah, the festival of lights, is one such reminder, celebrating the recovery of Jerusalem from colonizing Greeks in the second century B.C.E."("Settler Colonialism: A Guide for the Sincere", Bret Stephens, NY Times, 2/6/24)."

Richard Sherman,  Florida