Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Apr
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So generally what today is considered to be a Zionist is someone who believes that the state of Israel should exist with a Jewish majority.
Technically, anyone who thinks that there should be some kind of Jewish homeland in the land of Israel is a Zionist.
I no longer consider myself one.
Today, I think the most important part is that we have equality in Israel or Israel-Palestine.
So I'm not really concerned about whether the Jews have a majority or not.
But that's something that evolved over time, over the last two, three years.
Yeah, I wrote a Substack article about moving away from Zionism
a year and a half ago or so and then i started getting more more followers more growth because that was a big story because i'm sort of an israeli insider and i turned against against our ideology uh and that came because i as i started talking to people and seeing what was happening in the war i started to realize how many crimes israel was committing and i started to realize how systematic those crimes have been throughout israeli history
and uh i've come to the realization that uh the entire israeli um military political structure is based on the oppression of arabs or or non-jews and it's really hard to separate israel from that oppression in any meaningful way that's fascinating so i think you said on scottsdale you're an anti-zionist now
Well, I don't like the term anti-Zionist because it sounds like you're just coming out against something.
So I prefer to think of myself as pro equality.
I think that Jews and Arabs in Israel should be equal.
That's a pretty radical shift in two or three years.
Yes.
Well, I always, to be fair to myself and to some liberal Zionists, I always wanted Palestinians to have equal rights, but I thought the best way to do that would be through them having their own state.
You'd have a Jewish state and you'd have a Palestinian state.
the developments have made that seem almost impossible you know the just the spatial separation with all the settlements that have been built it doesn't seem like something that's going to happen so you already have one state and i think the more realistic thing to do would be to make that one state equal for everyone involved
Well, I talk to a certain subset in the Israeli military, so I should clarify.
Right.
I used to talk to sort of run-of-the-mill IDF people who I knew or I was introduced to by people that I knew.
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