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BB:
Going back to your earlier post:
Imagine that someone is very strict about his mitzvah observance and learns and davens all day but he happens to also be a member of Jews for J and believes that their savior is his savior, too, R”L.
Would you similarly ask why that guy is to be shunned, given all the good that he does? After all, who cares if he worships idols if he does so much good, according to what you seem to be implying
So, please explain:
Given that Rav Elchonon Wasserman, the Brisker Rav (who lived there) and all the rest wrote explicitly that any flavor of Zionism, including “Religious Zionism”, is idolatry, and obviously in the halachic sense of the word, on what halachic basis did you decide that this idolatry (Zionism) is less severe and halachically different than that idolatry?
Going back ever further, there is the well-known story of the Malach (the rabbi, not an “angel”) whose son was fooled into donating a small coin to some Zionist and in return received a Zionist JNF pin, which he wore on his garment. When the Malach saw this, he tried convincing him to remove it, but he did not want to listen. As they were walking, they “happened” upon Rav Chaim Brisker, and stopped to ask him his Daas Torah. Rav Chaim pointed to a church across the street and stated that if the boy wanted to give money to idolatry, it would be better to give it to this idol (the church) rather than to that idol (the Zionists).