And I empathize with your predicament having bought the anti-Zionist Kool Aid in denail of the inalienable right of Jews to self-determination in their historic homeland.
But they get no relief from criticism here for being apologists for  indefensible Palestinian terrorism, gay apartheid and female segregation, honor killings of wives and daughters, female genital mutilation, and stabbings of innocent Israelis, women and children.

In the words of Jewish theologian Marc Ellis, "Jewish empowerment is important and should be affirmed." Zionism does it.