The meaning of the Jewish law against Idolatry

 Before I even read it in a tweet by Voice of Rabbis (anti-Zionist), I thought it to myself.  Zionism is an idolatry.  It's worship of state of above God.  It's disobedience to fundamental las against murder, theft, and false witness in the favor of a state of genocide applied to non-jews who have just as much claim, if not more to all of historic Palestine defined as From the River to the Sea.  As well as the rules of Hospitality and Tikkun Olam.

It's breaking the Three Oaths of the Talmud, against creating a state and mass resettling in the Holy Land.  Even when the Messiah comes, it means the Messiah rules the world from Jerusalem, which was hoped to be a world mostly full of Jews, not that all Jews go to Jerusalem.  Not waiting for God to do what God has insisted you wait for him to do is the highest form of disrespect.

I see Neturei Karta is correct in this fundamentalist reading, and consistent with most rabbis of 100 years ago and virtually all of 130 years ago.

But among these, the worst accusation in the Jewish laws is Idolotry, so that is the most serious offense in the context of Judaism.

But in what I'm going to say now, this accusation that something is idolatrous is fundamentally anti social.

It stems from monotheism, though possibly you could have a universalistic monotheism that doesn't recognize such a crime as idolatry as such.  To be consistent, it would also have to not recognize heresy.  It would be fully accepting of syncreetism, not explicity anti other.  So what if other people are worshipping Ba'al?  What matters, is are they obeying all the other laws.  None of the Abrahamic religions is like this, but others, like Taoism, are.  Polytheistic religions tend naturally to accept others and simply add their new gods to their own.

So the rot of fascism and all forms of socio political domination like current neoliberal imperialism goes back to one thing:  monotheism.

In order to accept others, we must accept that they see God(s) differently, unless we are indending to create a subgroup which separates us from all others.

The only solution for a global religion is to adopt such a view.

Then, I suppose, I couldn't insist that Zionists quit being idolatrous.  But I could still demand that Zionists quit breaking all the other laws.