Zionism is racist

Thank you for the response. Onward! Background: Zionism is basically the action/movement Jews take to found their homeland. Jews are scattered around the world from places such as the U.S to Germany. After WW2 and when the UN was involved, the countries of Israel and and another Arab nation was founded through a compromise. Jews yearned for a place to gather and preserve their ethic group. Zionism is the action in which they take to achieve this dream. Observations: Different views on Zionism determine if it's racist. Palestine look to it as racist. Jews look to it as not racist. So to judge whether or not if it's racist it depends on the Zionism's future's benefits and harms. And we are specifically talking about Jews. Contention 1: The goal of Zionism is for the Jews to make their own homeland. Is this Jewish desire to form their own country, with a majority Jews of course, racist? If so then the U.S, China, and other democratic countries are racist. History has shown the need to ensure Jewish security in the form of a national homeland, this movement unites Jews' ideals through shared through origin, religion, culture and history. Civil rights lawyer, Alan Dershowitz expalins, ""A world that closed its doors to Jews who sought escape from Hitler's ovens lacks the moral standing to complain about Israel's giving preference to Jews." The only country with a majority of Jews is Israel. Thus Zionism isn't racist because Jews are attempting to found their own country where they can unite and rebuild what they lost throughout history without fear of prosecution. Contention 2: The movement of Zionism is also attempting to found a Jewish country in the Promise Land. The best ideal land is Israel. I hope my opponent realizes Israel is a democratic country. If Israel was a Nazi-like country then I would agree, yet it's not. As a democratic country they strive for equal rights for Jews, Arabs, etc. "Liberal Zionist ideology, advocating among other things the need for Palestinian statehood in order to form a more democratic society in Israel, affirming the free market, and calling for equal rights for Arab citizens of Israel." "The multi-national, worldwide Zionist movement is structured as a representative democracy"-Wikipedia. Contention 3: Zionism's movements attempts to assimilate non-Jews too. "Initially one of several Jewish political movements offering alternative responses to assimilation of Non-Jews"-Wikipedia If Zionism was racist then only Jews would be allowed, but no this ideal tries to assimilate. For example the country of Israel consist of Jews, Arabs, Christians, and Africans. Pro: 1. I agree this is irrelevant. 2. I'll drop this point, yet Jesus advocated equality and disliked racism and the Jewish religion was based on this. His point: If you conquered/claimed something do you want to share it, much less give it back to the enemy? Similarly the Israeli were promised land by God, they finally got it after centuries of persecution and now you say "hand it over to the Palestine's or else we'll file you as a racist religion." Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org... http://www.faqs.org... http://abraham-sons.blogspot.com... http://www.beth-elsa.org... http://www.internationalwallofprayer.org... http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org... For the reasons above Zionism is not racist. Vote Con. I can't post next round because I'll be on a camping trip. Sorry. So I can't really refute your rebuttals. Thank you.