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Comment by nielsbot | Hacker News Reader

Until recently, in the US at least, there wasn’t any non-zionist choice. Same for the UK and for Germany.

Thank God this is changing, but it’s going much too slowly.

Who's the 'non-zionist' choice in the US?

The only one I can think of offhand is Bernie Sanders.

It's not crazy either, in Canada we have Avi Lewis, he leads a federal party and is very outspoken

>Born into a working-class Jewish family and raised in New York…

Being jewish is not the same as condoning Israel's war crimes (which shouldn't even have to be clarified, but here we are...)

And even he was saying Zionist things just a few years ago. He’s not a paragon of anti-Zionism but glad he’s moved on this. At least publicly.

Joseph Biden

Joseph Biden is a self-proclaimed Zionist:

I was being facetious but in all fairness he was anything but when he was in the Oval

It can be difficult, but many politicians are now running on explicitly anti-AIPAC and anti-Zionist campaigns.

An example of this. Politicians are still politicians, and what a politician DOES is far more important than what one says.

That being said, Zionism has become political poison. Even with massive funding, pro-Israel and Zionist candidates are losing left and right.

What politicians run on and what they do after getting elected does not often match sadly.