About My Anti-Zionism

By Leo Gura - August 28, 2025

In the coming weeks and months I plan to post some strong, negative stuff about Zionism.

If you are a Jewish follower of my work, please understand that I have nothing against Jews. I do not care at all about ethnic identity. I do not divide humans by ethnic group. I do not identify with my own ethnic group. So I will not make special extenuation for any ethnic group due to past genocides. When I speak against Zionism it is from a position of truth-seeking and sense-making. The reason I badmouth Zionism is because it is intellectually bankrupt, not because I have a grudge against Jews. You can be a Jew and realize that Zionism is epistemic trash. To frame that as antisemitic is itself epistemic trash. What’s being rebuked is not a race nor ethnicity, but a fallacious political ideology, in the same way that to say that Nazism is intellectual trash is to say nothing negative about the German ethnic group. I use the term “Zionism” deliberately to avoid smearing all Jews, because there are many conscientious non-Zionist Jews. There are also plenty of non-Jewish Zionists who are part of the problem. What’s being challenged is a bad set of beliefs which the state of Israel likes to perpetuate because it serves the state’s survival agenda. Criticizing the state of Israel is not racist nor hateful nor pro-terrorist. Nor am I calling for the extinction of the Israel state. Nor do I deny that genuine antisemitism exists. Nor do I deny the historical abuse of Jews in Europe. There is no contradiction between antisemitism being wrong and Zionism being wrong. To me, criticizing Zionists is like criticizing Neo-Cons. Criticizing Neo-Cons does not make one unAmerican nor anti-Caucasian, even though they’d love to frame it that way.

For me this is not an issue of human rights or political activism but accurate understanding of reality. There are deep epistemic lessons to be learned from studying the falsehoods of Zionism. So I speak about this issue from that angle, not as a political activist. My goal is to guide people to more accurate understanding of reality, which then auto-corrects most issues. Zionism is firstly an epistemic failure, which then becomes a moral failure. Since most political analysts tackle this issue from a moral angle, I like to tackle it from an epistemic angle — so that you learn something new.

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