The racism of the Green Party

The suffix “-ism” is a relatively modern one, but the ideas it bolts on to are often ancient. No one imagines there were no pacifists before the word “pacifism” was coined, nor that humanism began when someone first gave it a name. And the same is true of Zionism. Centuries before Theodor Herzl wrote Der Judenstaat (“The Jewish State”) in Paris in 1895, the idea of Zion as the homeland of Jews had been a…