About Zionism on the Web

Mission statement

Our mission is to combat antisemitism, racism and misunderstanding by providing credible sources on Zionism and Israel that challenges the propoganda and online hate speech which seek to demonise Zionism, Israel and the Jewish people.

Our Aims

In order to fulfill our mission we seek to:

• Provide high quality original content on Israel and Zionism
• Republish high quality articles available on or off line with the authors consent
• Encourage authors of high quality article on Israel and Zionism to release them into the public domain
• Encourage students, researchers and the public to quote, use and reproduce our content with suitable acknowledgements
• Provide organise links to further high quality online references and to organisations who futher our mission statement
• Raise awareness of the importance of the internet in combatting hate
• Work with governments, community organisations and NGOs in the fight against racism and antisemitism
• Provide technical assistance to like minded organisations and web space to like minded individuals

Zionism: What do we mean?

Our definition of Zionism and a collection of other people's definitions of Zionism

Zionism on the Web supports the proposition that every people has the right to live in freedom and develop its own culture, language and society. Jews are people like any other people. The Jewish people is a people like any other. We,  the Jewish people, have the right to self-determination in our own national home, where we can speak our own language and develop our own culture. Those are the basic ideas of Zionism.

The Zionism pages are intended for use by citizens who want to know about Zionist ideas and history and the controversy surrounding Zionism, anti-Zionism and Israel. We have materials and links to organisations that can help supporters of Zionism, and supports of the fight against racism know how to explain Zionism to others.

To state the obvious, Jews are as good or as bad as anyone else. Anyone who believes differently is a racist.

Our political position

The only political propositions we defend as policy at Zionism on the Web are that the Jewish people have the right to a national home in Israel (where people of all faiths and backgrounds can live and prosper), that Israel has the right to exist, and that Jewish nationalism is as legitimate as the nationalist movement of any other people. These pages do not belong to any particular Zionist ideological stream.  In these pages, we try not take political positions on issues within the Zionist movement, or indeed on controvertial positions within Israeli society. There are plenty of other sites about those topics and we aim to rather provide links to them. We do not favor any particular definition of Zionism or Zionist program over any other, as long as it is not a definition or program that excludes or delegitimizes other people. We aim to be inclusive.

More information

Chief Executive Officer

Dr Andre Oboler holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University, UK and is currently a Post Doctoral Fellow in Political Science at Bar-Ilan. His current field of research is online public diplomacy. Andre has been a lecturer in Web Technologies, Software Engineering and other areas of computer science for six years. He has been involved in the UK Jewish community as an executive member of the Union of Jewish Students (UJS) and a deputy on the Board of Deputies of British Jews. In 2006 (during the Hizbullah crisis) Andre was the UK delegate on the Bayit Meshutaf program run by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 2007-2008 Andre is a Legacy Heritage Fellow at NGO Monitor in Jerusalem. Andre has presented seminars in Australia, the UK, Europe, the USA and Israel. In 2008 he was a speaker at the Global Forum to Combat Antisemitism, the premier event on the topic on antisemitism. He has published a ground breaking report Online Antisemitism 2.0. "Social Antisemitism" on the "Social Web" through the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and is currently working on a book on the topic.

You can read further information on our people and our our supporters. If you wish to exchange links, see our links policy