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Independence Day / I am a Zionist and I am proud
By Sara Miller
Tags: Israel Independence Day 

"I'll give you six months," said a close relative the day before I packed my life into two rucksacks and schlepped them 2,000 miles from Britain. A decade on, I'm still here, and proud to be an olah vatika (veteran immigrant).

Even within Israel the concept of Aliyah for Zionism's sake is often an alien one. Young Israelis in particular cannot understand why someone from an evidently prosperous country, with a culture-rich and progressive society and which is relatively terrorism free, would choose to throw it all over, leave their family and friends and move to a country so riddled with internal problems and violence.

My motivation can be summed up in one word. Zionism. In recent decades Zionism has become a dirty word in the world. It has been used as an insulting and disrespectful collective noun for the Jewish people, shorthand for the State of Israel within the context of its conflict with the Palestinians and even a synonym for the settlement movement.
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It is time to reclaim the word as an expression of pride. Zionism is what has driven and will drive past, present and future Jews around the world to move to a miniscule spot of land in a war-torn region.

Their need to belong to Israel is not always appreciated by the existing populace. On a crowded Tel Aviv bus when I objected to an armpit in my face, I was told to go back to America. Native Israelis laugh at my British accent, reply to my fluent Hebrew in appalling English but would nonetheless kill for my EU passport.

Ironically, I found it is the Israeli working class, beset as it is by economic hardship, which seems the most accepting and understanding of my decision. Their pride in the homeland is real, joyous and unrelenting.

Israel is where I belong. This is where Jews belong, whether they live here, visit or simply feel a spiritual connection to the place. It is the embodiment of thousands of years of aspiration, through pogroms, persecution and genocide.

Not that I was the victim of any real anti-Semitism in my life in Britain, but there are always ominous undertones. My local synagogue in Manchester, like many, has a private security company on patrol for the High Holidays, and my Jewish primary school has a barbed wire fence. Yet there is nothing akin to what forced my great grandparents from Eastern Europe or what led my Austrian relatives to their deaths in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

I may well be a product of my environment in Britain - Jewish youth movement, Jewish education, Jewish home - and there are many things that disturb, scare and sadden me about Israel, such as its inability to reconcile to the reality of our Palestinian neighbors, its capricious attitude to war and the religious intolerance from secular and religious Jews alike. But here I am.

This is my tenth Yom Hazikaron and Yom Ha'atzmaut as an Israeli. It's been frequently tough, sometimes lonely, occasionally frightening, but never a cause for regret.

I am always in Rabin Square for the siren for the dead, and for the dancing for the living. I am a Zionist, and I am proud. This is my country and I love it. Here I will remain.



Sara Miller is the editor of Haaretz.com

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  1.   Why do you have an EU passport Sara? 20:33  |  John 28/04/09
  2.   Sizzling Israel Independence Day to all . Superb are the official 20:41  |  Joseph.E 28/04/09
  3.   kol ha kavod 20:41  |  danny 28/04/09
  4.   Zionisman expression of pride 20:48  |  Am Israel Chai 28/04/09
  5.   Sara,ditto many times over! 20:54  |  bat yam 28/04/09
  6.   Ignoring the "ominous undertones" of Zionism 20:55  |  peacelover 28/04/09
  7.   Ms Miller Should Search Her Soul A Bit More Deeply 20:56  |  Yaakov Sullivan 28/04/09
  8.   saying it plain and simple 21:02  |  Connie 28/04/09
  9.   Proud of you! 21:07  |  Vik 28/04/09
  10.   Good use of the passive voice. 21:10  |  Colin Wright 28/04/09
  11.   Tel-Aviv maybe a Metropolitain but sure is a Hebrew City 21:10  |  Joseph.E 28/04/09
  12.   Nice article....,Ms. Sara Miller. 21:20  |  Stephen. 28/04/09
  13.   Zionism 21:22  |  Chonoi Davidowitz 28/04/09
  14.   If you are a proud zionist 21:25  |  Chris Linthwaite 28/04/09
  15.   Thank you!!!! Thank you Thank you 21:26  |  Matan 28/04/09
  16.   I AM A ZIONIST FOR LIFE 21:29  |  Mark 28/04/09
  17.   bedazzled 21:30  |  Welshman 28/04/09
  18.   #1,Why do you have a Zionist first name ,John? 21:38  |  Absolute Sweden 28/04/09
  19.   Great Article! 21:39  |  Proud Secular Jew 28/04/09
  20.   RE; Colin Wright 21:46  |  judith 28/04/09
  21.   the problem with Zionism 21:47  |  non-Zionist 28/04/09
  22.   Great one! 21:52  |  xenophobia 28/04/09
  23.   Absolute sweden 21:58  |  Welshman 28/04/09
  24.   please explain 22:32  |  melissa 28/04/09
  25.   Israel is our homeland 22:33  |  Jewish 28/04/09
  26.   Zionism 22:35  |  barron 28/04/09
  27.   judith #20 `RE; Colin Wright` 22:40  |  Colin Wright 28/04/09
  28.   ZION RULES!!! 22:41  |  Chaim 28/04/09
  29.   14 23:09  |  zionist forever 28/04/09
  30.   And why, sara? 23:18  |  Axel 28/04/09
  31.   You summarized the feelings of Jews 23:31  |  TOMY 28/04/09
  32.   #7 Yaakov Sullivan , nice try 23:35  |  TOMY 28/04/09
  33.   21 23:38  |  zionist forever 28/04/09
  34.   Kol haKavod Sara 23:40  |  Niv 28/04/09
  35.   any why, axel? 23:41  |  dan 28/04/09
  36.   re: the problem with Zionism 23:43  |  Becca 28/04/09
  37.   Sara, better be a "world citizen" than a "Zionist"...... 23:48  |  Swiss (Dino) 28/04/09
  38.   John 23:55  |  Michael 28/04/09
  39.   thank you 23:57  |  Julien 28/04/09
  40.   Some simple questions for Palestine sympathizers 00:05  |  Yonatan 29/04/09
  41.   Axel from Deutschland 00:08  |  Gideon 29/04/09
  42.   To John, Colin and especially Axel . . . 00:11  |  Mark 29/04/09
  43.   The problem with Zionism 00:17  |  American Patriot 29/04/09
  44.   #31. Dino. Sara will not answer. Let me..ok 00:17  |  Stephen. 29/04/09
  45.   A very nice story 00:19  |  Conroy 29/04/09
  46.   in spite of the Axels and Dinos 00:36  |  Itai 29/04/09
  47.   Non Zionist (#21) from Fire Worked Jerusalem 01:02  |  Gil 29/04/09
  48.   Not in spite of them, Itai, IN THEIR FACE! 01:02  |  Freethinker 29/04/09
  49.   yes of course you should be proud... 01:07  |  ramin 29/04/09
  50.   oxymoron for the day 01:35  |  Eddie Harris 29/04/09
  51.   Well Said Sara. I`m going on 3 years here and you... 02:08  |  B`galil 29/04/09
  52.   #31 Swiss (Dino) 02:15  |  TOMY 29/04/09
  53.   #21 non-Zionist , there is no problem 02:20  |  TOMY 29/04/09
  54.   Swiss 02:39  |  Ben 29/04/09
  55.   Yaakov Sullivan 02:43  |  dani 29/04/09
  56.   Wow! Sara--you rock!! 03:00  |  US CITIZEN 29/04/09
  57.   Swiss - oh so enlightened 03:23  |  Nano 29/04/09
  58.   #34 ben`s reply to swiss 03:31  |  neil 29/04/09
  59.   # 100 03:46  |  oz 29/04/09
  60.   Zionist and proud of it 03:50  |  Mark 29/04/09
  61.   Dual citizenship 04:03  |  Arnold 29/04/09
  62.   Excellent 05:10  |  Michael Zubick 29/04/09
  63.   Am Yisroel Chai 05:30  |  Rab Burns 29/04/09
  64.   ALL JEWS ARE ZIONISTS!!! 06:09  |  Joshua 29/04/09
  65.   that`s the reason for my daily reading of Haaretz! 06:11  |  Smadar 29/04/09
  66.   MidEast= war-torn region. 07:05  |  Israeli NOT Zionist 29/04/09
  67.   #23welshman:Zion is Hebrew,har tzion,Jerusalem 07:06  |  Susanna/Shoshana 29/04/09
  68.   Barbed wire fence???? Give me a break 07:11  |  LOL 29/04/09
  69.   #21non-zionist-screw yourself-Israel bought the land-first Abraha 07:14  |  Susanna/Shoshana 29/04/09
  70.   To: Axel and all Jew baiting Hypocrites 07:18  |  No dope 29/04/09
  71.   I`M AN ISLAMIST 07:25  |  indrajaya 29/04/09
  72.   I[`m proud of Israel and all my fellow Jews 07:26  |  Holocaust Survivor 29/04/09
  73.   Sara have you read Herzl`s The Jewish State? 07:35  |  L A 29/04/09
  74.   #35dani-what are "Christian" values-Jesus was a Jewish preacher 07:37  |  Susanna/Shoshana 29/04/09
  75.   Just another euro-trash settler... 07:38  |  Niva dos Santos 29/04/09
  76.   Independence Day / I am a Zionist and I am proud 07:41  |  Jeff 29/04/09
  77.   #43RabBurns-Iwish we didn`t have to be proud zionist,having to su 07:44  |  Susanna/Shoshana 29/04/09
  78.   Oh poor you. People laugh at your accent? 08:05  |  Northern 29/04/09
  79.   Say it LOUD I am a Zionist 08:14  |  An Australian 29/04/09
  80.   Sentiments and illusions in my head 08:34  |  allang 29/04/09
  81.   #44Speak for your self. Not all Jews are Zionists 08:36  |  Socialist 29/04/09
  82.   Seriously, Sara that was deep 08:38  |  skeptical 29/04/09
  83.   duel citizenship 08:39  |  Gershon Reed 29/04/09
  84.   How much Jewish money is in Swiss banks? 08:45  |  Gershon Reed 29/04/09
  85.   For Y. Sullivan and #1 dual citizenship 08:46  |  leila (liat) Perez 29/04/09
  86.   palestinians are zionists too 08:59  |  dana 29/04/09
  87.   Thanks for saying what many feel 09:43  |  Elie the Canadian 29/04/09
  88.   Say it in Israel - not in Australia 09:57  |  Bill 29/04/09
  89.   Sara reveals insights on remediable woes of Zionism 10:03  |  Ivar 29/04/09
  90.   Sentiments and illusions in my head 10:05  |  allang 29/04/09
  91.   Thank you Sara. You said it for us ALL 10:07  |  Lulu Kahn 29/04/09
  92.   Zionism is in my heart forever 10:09  |  russian Jew 29/04/09
  93.   #13 UNLUCKY for some 10:14  |  Ari ben Yisrael 29/04/09
  94.   explaining irony to melissa 10:18  |  nina 29/04/09
  95.   i may be a zionist,and i am anxious 10:21  |  uzi mc.lap 29/04/09
  96.   # 34 Ben, I didn`t say that one shouldn`t be a proud Israeli.... 10:28  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/04/09
  97.   # 53 Gershon Reed, most experts would probably agree.... 10:40  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/04/09
  98.   it`s nice to be successful affluent and handsome anywhere 10:50  |  ben gunn 29/04/09
  99.   #53 Mr. Reed, I understood what you mean 10:54  |  Ardi 29/04/09
  100.   How can you call your self a Zionist 11:01  |  Chris Linthwaite 29/04/09
  101.   #56 Bill-Being Jewish is not based on religion but birth,ask the 11:05  |  Susanna/Shoshana 29/04/09
  102.   #61 Mr. Ardi 11:07  |  Gershon Reed 29/04/09
  103.   no 44 No Joshua, all Jews are not Zionists 11:12  |  Kim 29/04/09
  104.   Zionism is entangled with the illegal settlements 11:24  |  jens 29/04/09
  105.   dual citizienship 11:41  |  sweis 29/04/09
  106.   i am an israeli and i am apprehensive 12:09  |  hagar sauber 29/04/09
  107.   well done, sara 12:14  |  dave 29/04/09
  108.   just Jewish not a zionist 12:23  |  ishak 29/04/09
  109.   So do you have loyalties to Britain, Sara? 12:31  |  Michael 29/04/09
  110.   Now lets get Shalit home-there are so many American soldier MIAs 12:55  |  Susanna/Shoshana 29/04/09
  111.   zionism 13:03  |  Saar 29/04/09
  112.   Well said,Sara! 13:12  |  Hastaroth 29/04/09
  113.   #46 13:15  |  Hastaroth 29/04/09
  114.   #56 13:39  |  Bilby 29/04/09
  115.   this is my Zionism 13:52  |  maurice cimber 29/04/09
  116.   Ineresting that she keeps her escape ticket. Her commitment 14:24  |  American in NY 29/04/09
  117.   Can`t be worse 14:26  |  ehud 29/04/09
  118.   Wonderful To read and I Too Feel Very Proud Being a Zionist.Sarah 16:27  |  Kathy 29/04/09
  119.   To Absolute Sweden.Why? because they are ignorant 16:32  |  Kathy 29/04/09
  120.   Judaism is also a nation 16:49  |  Zody 29/04/09
  121.   Sara, you speek for so many of us 17:03  |  Rachel 29/04/09
  122.   Something Went Radically Wrong 17:06  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/04/09
  123.   ZIONIST IS A BEAUTIFUL NAME 17:12  |  ZION 29/05/09
  124.   Exodus = Myth 17:22  |  Gully Foyle 29/04/09
  125.   Yaakov Sullivan 17:26  |  Dani 29/04/09
  126.   Yaakov 17:29  |  Walter M 29/04/09
  127.   #1 John whynot have a double passport, know many like that 17:31  |  Big Sur 29/04/09
  128.   Zionist endeavor proved to be successful beyond belief. 17:32  |  17 29/04/09
  129.   #7 Yaakov Sullivan 17:34  |  Big Sur 29/04/09
  130.   yaakov sullivan wants Israael dstroyed 17:34  |  Zody 29/04/09
  131.   Israel isa miracle 17:38  |  Zody 29/04/09
  132.   to Welshman 17:40  |  Big Sur 29/04/09
  133.   Yaakov Sullivan 17:42  |  Lon 29/04/09
  134.   # 81 Gully Foyle - The Merneptah Stele 17:43  |  17 29/04/09
  135.   America is my Zion 17:48  |  Schlomo 29/04/09
  136.   Reclaiming Zionism. 17:52  |  Angela K. 29/04/09
  137.   Dani and His Nationalist Excuses 17:56  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/04/09
  138.   #25 ISN`T IT WHY SAY AT THE END OF OUR PESACH PRAYERS.NEXT YEAR 18:01  |  KATHY 29/04/09
  139.   #86 Gully foyle some proof for you 18:05  |  Big Sur 29/04/09
  140.   Walter M on Nationalism 18:07  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/04/09
  141.   God Speaks to the Nations 18:18  |  Lisa Javner 29/04/09
  142.   # 34 Ben / # 37 Nano, I didn`t say that one can`t be a proud.... 18:25  |  Swiss (Dino) 29/04/09
  143.   Yaakov Sullivan 18:29  |  uetliberg 29/04/09
  144.   Remembering Zion! Am Israel Chai 18:29  |  Big Sur 29/04/09
  145.   Do you know Big Sur..my Little niece was born in England..when my 18:52  |  KATHY 29/04/09
  146.   To Big Sur versus The Welshman..A very,very, Good Reply Indeed! 18:57  |  KATHY 29/04/09
  147.   #103 Big Sur / Velikovsky 19:01  |  BDS 29/04/09
  148.   Hey Yak` You talk about nationalism only in respect of Israel.BUT 19:07  |  KATHY 29/04/09
  149.   No uetliberg @107 Zionism is not only political BUT! 19:15  |  KATHY 29/04/09
  150.   Big Sur..Exactly what I wrote to a responder.Not Out Yet tho` 19:23  |  Kathy 29/04/09
  151.   BDS if there is something I have learned 19:28  |  Big Sur 29/04/09
  152.   For Kathy well put in #110 & 111 19:31  |  Big SUr 29/04/09
  153.   Kathy 19:33  |  Uetliberg 29/04/09
  154.   what was the cost of proud zionists for palestinians? 19:36  |  kaled 29/04/09
  155.   Uetliberg on KATHY 19:55  |  Yaakov Sullivan 29/04/09
  156.   Israel was born by right. Political intersts fabricated Jordan 20:41  |  Joseph.E 29/04/09
  157.   Is not Jordan a Palestinian country ??? 21:06  |  TOMY 29/04/09
  158.   #121 Kaled from Rio Google Yitzak Epstein 21:26  |  Big Sur 29/04/09
  159.   Uetliberg On Yaakov Sullivan For your information. 21:29  |  KATHY 29/04/09
  160.   #123 well You got their attention Kathy #28 responded 21:33  |  Big Sur 29/04/09
  161.   Abraham was from iraq, an arab 21:37  |  chilem 29/04/09
  162.   dino, are not you ashamed of being a swiss? 21:45  |  charro 29/04/09
  163.   Yaakov Sullivan 22:21  |  Dani 29/04/09
  164.   Excuse Uetliberg#126 But Did you know.. 22:25  |  KATHY 29/04/09
  165.   Yaakov 22:25  |  Walter M. 29/04/09
  166.   I too am a very proud Zionist 22:26  |  Gee 29/04/09
  167.   Yaakov Sullivan 22:30  |  Reader 29/04/09
  168.   Oxymoron --Zionist /Pride 22:35  |  Labhras 29/04/09
  169.   Yaakov you aint scoring points pretending to be Jewish 22:43  |  Big Sur 29/04/09
  170.   Uetliberg "logic" 22:43  |  yonatan 29/04/09
  171.   Sara Miller: "I am a Zionist and I am proud" 22:49  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 29/04/09
  172.   #137 Lahbrass how do we go about it? 22:49  |  Big Sur 29/04/09
  173.   #133 Kathy just how naive are you--you cant 22:52  |  Labhras 29/04/09
  174.   ominous undertones-double standard 22:55  |  David M 29/04/09
  175.   Oxymoron, answer to Labhras 23:01  |  Israeli citizen 29/04/09
  176.   Labhras..What is "punting"??? 23:13  |  KATHY 29/04/09
  177.   yes, sara, Israel is so important&this period when the Israel 23:37  |  ks 29/04/09
  178.   Dani I agree 00:06  |  Walter M 30/04/09
  179.   137 labras` oxymoron or Arab inability to cope with reality?... 00:16  |  bat yam 30/04/09
  180.   the biggest mistake of my life 00:46  |  zak 30/04/09
  181.   Re: Lisa Javner #114 00:57  |  KR 30/04/09
  182.   What is Zionism? 01:03  |  Daniel Leopold 30/04/09
  183.   John-#-1-Race and religion are not the criteria for being Israeli 01:06  |  Daniel Leopold 30/04/09
  184.   To Gee @135 Of Course You Are Not,ever I Hope Going Away! 02:15  |  Whiskey 30/04/09
  185.   An Addendum To Uetliberg #133 02:24  |  Kathy 30/04/09
  186.   To #107 & #112 - Exodus Myth 02:39  |  Gully Foyle 30/04/09
  187.   Sara Miller sure doesn`t sound like Semitic name to me 03:35  |  Mohammad 30/04/09
  188.   RE : World citizens - Swiss Dino 04:23  |  Tony 30/04/09
  189.   After all that being said and done:The true Story (2nd try) 04:38  |  Akram Zekaria 30/04/09
  190.   #86 04:46  |  Israeli NOT Zionist 30/04/09
  191.   Labhras-#137-So how should they have gone about it? 05:38  |  Daniel Leopold 30/04/09
  192.   I Am A Zionist And I Am Proud 05:46  |  Yosemite 30/04/09
  193.   YOUR COUNTRY, EH? SARA. 06:44  |  PADDY 30/04/09
  194.   I am a very proud Zionist 06:55  |  Baruch Gold 30/04/09
  195.   proud to be a zionist but living in the US 06:58  |  a 30/04/09
  196.   To #59 Dana 07:15  |  russian Jew 30/04/09
  197.   AM in NY WHERE does author say anything about dual citizenship? 08:00  |  PETER SM 30/04/09
  198.   KALED Cost was Pals shooting themselves in the foot 08:03  |  PETER SM 30/04/09
  199.   Sara lives what she speaks 17:23  |  hayley 30/04/09
  200.   Especially for Ms.Miller.Please read if you do care. 21:24  |  KATHY 30/04/09
  201.   145~ Kathy about Yaakov Tinman : 21:32  |  Akram Zekaria 30/04/09
  202.   #187 Akram Zekaria..Thank You kindly Sir.. 21:47  |  KATHY 30/04/09
  203.   Dana puts her foot in her mouth once again. 22:38  |  KATHY 30/04/09
  204.   #203 KATHY - SORRY BUT YOU ARE MISINFORMED! 09:01  |  PADDY 01/05/09
  205.   Russian jew #159 - you need history lessons 09:55  |  dana 01/05/09
  206.   Kathy #203 History not your strong suit 10:17  |  dana 01/05/09
  207.   Please learn more about the history of Zionism 18:26  |  Dr Y.S. 01/05/09
  208.   KATHY the KARKUR Cavewoman 21:23  |  Yaakov Sullivan 01/05/09
  209.   To nada the arabist.@.206 Here is my reply.. 22:07  |  Kathy 01/05/09
  210.   To; Dana(almost a biblical Jew) 07:26  |  russian Jew 02/05/09
  211.   dana #206 history for you is invented 08:10  |  Gee 03/05/09
  212.   About Israel 03:12  |  Bill Donley 14/05/09
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