The Polarizing Complexity of the Kyrie Topic - Part Three

The Political Perspective and Conclusion

Welcome to the three-part analysis of The Polarizing Complexity of the Kyrie Topic. This is Section III of three. You can find Part I here and Part II here.

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The Political Perspective

In this last section, we will discuss the political ideology known as Zionism¹. To be clear, Zionism, which is “a nationalist movement that espouses the establishment of, and support for a homeland (Israel) for the Jewish people,” is a political concept. It’s purely political.

Zionism is not Judaism. These two are not the same.

This distinction needs to be understood because there are many Zionist practices that the Jews - individuals who practice Judaism - may disagree with. It’s this Zionist ideology that led to the Balfour Declaration, which led to the takeover of the land of Palestine and the Palestinians.

From the Huffpost, we read the following piece from the article, “Zionism is not Judaism²”:

It is often the case that the Israeli Zionist state engages in actions that h…