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I once heard a beautiful story. A very well-known rabbi left the United States and moved to Israel, made Aliyah, as we call it. One day his student came over to him and asked him, “Rabbi, what do you miss most from America?” The rabbi looked at him and said “I miss the longing for Israel.” Jews have longed for and prayed for Zion (Israel) for thousands of years. In our daily prayers, Zion, Jerusalem is mentioned hundreds of times. In the Torah, we are commanded to go to the temple in Jerusalem on all of our major holidays. Jews around the world have faced Jerusalem as they prayed for thousands of years. There was never a single day in history on which there were no Jews in the land of Israel. Many Jews, myself and my family included, upon moving to Israel, got off the plane, then got down on all fours, and kissed the ground while thanking God that we are finally home. But please, tell me more about how you’re only anti Zionist but not anti Jewish. Zion/Israel/Jerusalem is as core to Judaism as Jesus is to Christianity or Mecca is to Islam. If you oppose the Jews returning to their eternal homeland, Zion, if you think a tiny basically invisible dot on a map full of Muslim and Arab countries is just too much for the Jews to have, don’t look now, but there’s an antisemite walking around in your shoes. 🇮🇱🇮🇱💪💪✡️✡️🙏🙏❤️❤️