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>more on this?
Hannah Arendt was a German Jewish classical liberal political theorist from the 20th century, particularly famous for her concept of the "banality of evil", or the idea that it's really easy for governments or ideologies to get normalfags to do awful shit and rationalize it based on her coverage of the Eichmann trial because of how susprised she was by how eerily average the guy was.
But what's most interesting about her to me at least, is her coverage of the Zionist project and early years of Israel. She was always a Zionist and supported Jewish migration to Israel, but she was deeply critical of the sectarian and supremacist ideas rooted in the movement, which especially rose to prominence after Jews from Eastern Europe and the Middle East started swamping Israel in the 40s and 50s, which completely altered the demographic and cultural character of the area and the Zionist movement as a whole as revisionist ideas became more popular. She believed that the revanchist, supremacist, and uncompromising attitude that grew dominant in the postwar Zionist movement would be it's long-term downfall because it would be the ultimate betrayal of the liberal world order Israel was (at least in her mind) founded upon, while also making Israel too overly dependent on the guilt of Western powers, which would grow more and more limited the more atrocities and wars Israel would inevitably commit against Arabs following this new form of Zionism that deliberately ignored or sidelined the Arabs and their reasonable disagreements and objections.
Basically, this essay by her explains it all in detail if you're curious, she's one of the VERY few women theorists/philosophers whose opinions actually matter
https://tripleampersand.org/zionism-reconsidered/