Sure. I can see anti-Zionism as an expression of familial traumas, the understandable desire to redefine oneself. I grew up in the age of the Six Day War & Jew as superman in the face of Arab incompetents. When I argued with my parents over Israel doing to others (i.e. Palestinians) what had been done, or attempted, to them, their answer never varied: Well they [Israelis] had a reason!

I could see myself as a Millennial marching for Palestinians.

But as a Boomer I've come to realize that Zionism is valid: A starving man might steal bread to feed his family—were there no other way, in fact, I believe the Talmud would command it. Zionism is a settler-colonial enterprise people undertook to save their lives. The pity was that post-war Allied indifference—upon seeing that the rumored horrors were, if anything, minimizations of the reality—put radical, revisionist Zionism into the fore.

Where it has remained since.

Great piece.