Reply To: circa 1900: Letter from Lubavitcher Rebbe, the Heresy of “Religious” Zionism

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June 14, 2025 11:59 pm at 11:59 pm #2411545
Yaakov Yosef A
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Menachem – Notice that I specified that Chabad is anti-Zionism, not necessarily anti-Zionist

Exactly.

Chabad treats (today’s) Zionists as any other Jew who is unfortunately confused in derech haTorah

A lot of the quotes bandied around by hotheads looking to be mattir vildeh shtick in the name of ‘fighting Zionism’ date back to a tekufah when many of the Zionists/Maskilim were real hard-core שנה ופירש אפיקורסים. Among people who self-identify as ‘Zionists’, that type doesn’t exist anymore, and neither does the hetter to shame them.