I can only applaud these anti-ZIONIST Jewish rabbis. As a democratic socialist I note that ZIONISM is also incompatible with socialist internationalism . The mainstream news media in the United States routinely equates anti-ZIONISM with anti-Semitism . To a sad degree arrogant ZIONISM has corrupted the once sensitive social conscience of many Jewish intellectuals . In his popular book " World of Our Fathers " Irving Howe documented the role radical leftist Jews played in the American labor movement at the turn of the century and during the Great Depression of the 1930. Among them were many followers of Karl Marx and students of his " DAS KAPITAL " in which he explained very lucidly the secrets of capitalist exploitation - the dirty secret behind capitalist PROFIT. And even today nobody who understands the ABCs of Marxism will support any imperialist wars - not even now over a SOVEREIGN ( ? ) Ukraine. In all countries democratic socialists support the dispossessed and oppressed Palestinians - not Zionist APARTHEID Israel . We ask : how is the American plutocracy- or Israel's plutocracy - in any way morally superior to Putin's Russian oligarchy ? Have you had a whiff of " OUR democracy " lately ?