Anti-Zionism, Left and Right: Closing the Circle

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At a recent anti-Israel demonstration in New York City, a placard was raised (among other similar ones) that said: “Zionism Has No Place In My Judaism”. Question: was this a protest by rabidly anti-Zionist, ultra-conservative, Satmar Jews – or by fervently anti-Zionist, “Progressive”, BDS-supporting Jews?
In this case, it was the latter, but you wouldn’t be far off if you said the former. And that shouldn’t be surprising. In many respects, and regarding several issue areas, the Far Left and Far Right actually close the circle at the same point, rather than being found at polar opposite extremes of the political spectrum. Thus, it isn’t a coincidence that totalitarian Communist Russia and totalitarian Nazi Germany were allies for a while at the start of World War II, despite their ostensibly huge divide in socio-economic policy. Both systems were autocratic at the extreme. To paraphrase the well-known dictum: “

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