Zionism is the doctrine that the Jewish people were entitled to an ancestral homeland in the location of the historic kingdom of the Israelites, and that they should achieve it by colonization and the forced removal of the existing populace. It emerged in the late 19th century.
There's nothing incompatible with simultaneously not having a problem with Judaism in general or the Jews as a people but not agreeing with a doctrine that they can just seize other people's land based on some nebulous historic claim. Certainly, the nearly century long warfare in the Middle East and the personal cost to the US in blood and treasure alone is a very valid reason to say that Zionism is bad.
Zionism is the doctrine that the Jewish people were entitled to an ancestral homeland in the location of the historic kingdom of the Israelites, and that they should achieve it by colonization and the forced removal of the existing populace. It emerged in the late 19th century.
There's nothing incompatible with simultaneously not having a problem with Judaism in general or the Jews as a people but not agreeing with a doctrine that they can just seize other people's land based on some nebulous historic claim. Certainly, the nearly century long warfare in the Middle East and the personal cost to the US in blood and treasure alone is a very valid reason to say that Zionism is bad.
The very first proposed location for a Zionist State was "Ararat City" (NY, US).
I think he gets it and his comment is a "just saying" sort of thing.