What is Zionism?

Two Jewish writers explain it to other Jews. Let's listen in.

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NOTE: Zionism used to be a word that everyone could easily define. Not anymore. The Tucker Carlson set wishes us to believe that Zionism isn’t even Jewish, that somehow it’s a separate thing, one which the majority of Jews don’t support (you know, since Zionism is not Jewish).

Of course, this is news to the Jews. Globally, between 60 and 80 percent of Jews consider themselves Zionists to one degree or another. That number rises to 90 percent in Israel (although Pew found “just” 74 percent). It drops to a mere 37 percent in the United States (perhaps Bernie Sanders is the source of Tucker’s polling?), yet even here, as many as 88 percent of U.S. Jews support for the State of Israel’s existence, and 71 percent of U.S. Jews report an “emotional connection” to Israel.

So the question is, what is Zionism? And why is it suddenly controversial among people who never really thought about it till they started listening …