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Avi Gordon (and DY):

Actually, the Chevron Massacre occurred as a direct result of Zionism.

Rav Baruch Kaplan, who was learning there at the time (but, B”H, had been away that Shabbos) discussed this:

The “Religious Zionists” incited the Arabs because of the Kosel. They even came up with a play on words, “Shema Yisrael HaKosel Kosleinu HaKosel Echad”. Rabbi Kook was proud of them, too, even after the resulting massacre. Full details are available by searching “Kook Chevron Massacre” (no quotes).

The non-Zionists begged the “Religious Zionists” to stop bothering the Arabs and be grateful that they were able to pray at the Kosel at will (until the Zionists lost that in 1948, which they don’t tell you either).

The rumor spread that Al Aqsa was being threatened (kind of like the news these days), and the savages murdered these Yeshiva men in Chevron as a result. Of note, they did not touch the sefardim in that area whom they knew to be non-Zionist. But the Yeshiva men were Ashkenazic and, therefore, the savages assumed they were Zionists, too.