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rebdoniel
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Hirschian anti-Zionism isn’t the same as Haredi anti-Zionism, because Haredim reject universalism. They don’t care about the Fatherland or its inhabitants. They care about themselves. That’s not Hirsch’s derech at all. Rav Hirsch saw Jewish nationalism as an obstacle to the type of unity he sought with all people.

And there have been TIDE Zionists, such as Poalei Agudat Yisrael, which was under the leadership of Rabbi Isaac Breuer, and was also part of the Histadrut, Israel’s socialist trade union umbrella. An analysis shows that this TIDE-oriented party had little problem with neither Zionism nor socialism.