You might like to read this piece by a 'clueless, philo-Semitic goy' - Tom Doran - explaining why he is a Zionist and something of his path towards becoming one. In fact he's anything but clueless.
You simply can't follow politics in any depth, especially not on the left, without coming across the basest slanders against the Jewish state... I have no religious or ideological affiliation in this dispute but that of a self-proclaimed liberal secular humanist - something I could no longer keep calling myself if I neglected to stand up for Israel, even if all I have is words.
(Via @JohnRentoul.)
