Why Zionism Is Incompatible with LibertarianismIn each of my debates on the Israel-Palestine conflict, I have emphasized Zionism's incompatibility with libertarian principles. JEREMY R. HAMMOND  Libertarian Murray Rothbard and Zionist David Ben-Gurion (Generated by Jeremy R. Hammond using Sora AI) “The
libertarian creed rests upon one central axiom: that no man or group of
men may aggress against the person or property of anyone else. this may
be called the ‘nonaggression axiom.’ ‘Aggression’ is defined as the
initiation of the use or threat of physical violence against the person
or property of anyone else. Aggression is therefore synonymous with
invasion.” — Murray N. Rothbard, “For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto” (1973) “If
you wish to colonize a land in which people are already living, you
must provide a garrison for the land, or find a benefactor who will
maintain the garrison on your behalf…. Zionism is a colonizing adventure
and, therefore, it stands or falls on the question of armed forces.” — Ze’ev Jabotinsky, “The Iron Law” (1925) “Zionism
sought to create a Jewish state in a land that was already inhabited by
another people. Labor Zionists denied that this entailed the resort to
force, while right-wing Zionists admitted it. That was the main
difference between them.” — Avi Shlaim, “The Iron Wall Revisited” (2012) Those quotations effectively summarize what it means to be a "libertarian" or a "Zionist". One
is a political philosophy grounded in the belief that it is wrong to
commit aggression against others, that the only legitimate use of force
is for purposes of self-defense. The
other is a political movement grounded in the belief that it is
legitimate to use force offensively for the purpose of reconstituting
Arab Palestine into a demographically "Jewish state". In short, it is logically impossible to be both a libertarian and a Zionist. There
are four debates I'd like to draw your attention to, three of which I
participated in, in which the fundamental incompatibility between those
two ideologies are highlighted. Read my brief overview of each, watch the debates, and read my prepared arguments for two of them in my latest post: My
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