unintended conseqences
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/19/world/middleeast/israel-oct-7-left-wing-peace.html
Israelis Abandon Political Left
Many of the early Zionists were socialist idealists. The kibbutzim were envisioned as intentional community cooperatives. The Labor Party (social democratic) dominated Israeli politics for many decades. Israel supporters in the United States were mostly liberal in their political orientation.
My parents supported FDR during the 1940s and then Adlai Stevenson during the 1950s. After that they turned less and less liberal as Israel shifted more and more to the right.
The Labor Party now has very little support. Zionism is seen as right-wing. An argument can be made that this outcome was inevitable.
Neither Einstein nor Freud supported the establishment of an Israeli state. And Gandhi said this in 1938:
“Apart from my friendships there is the more common universal reason for my sympathy for the Jews. But my sympathy does not blind me to the requirements of justice. Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs. What is going on in Palestine today cannot be justified by any moral code of conduct.”
