Neville, you wrote: “So you would say there’s no point in opposing communism today?”
You misunderstood the point there. All communist countries refer to their government as “the revolution”. This self-entitles them to a perpetual state of emergency, and anyone spreading wrong think is accused of counter-revolutionary behavior. But, we all know that once the revolution takes the reigns they are the government, and not the revolution anymore.
Likewise, Zionism was an ideology to move all Jews to Israel and establish a homeland. There is no such movement anymore. Now there is a country. When it was an actual, contagious movement, it caught people’s imagination and supplanted any other ideology — including Yiddishkeit itself — with the Zionist ideology. That was a real, actual threat; not a vort.