What I find frustrating about this is that if somebody found anything even resembling this in Palestine’s besieged territories, we know—we know—that the Herzlians would be referencing it for months on end as ‘more irrefutable evidence’ that all Palestinians are antisemites. In contrast, Azov’s very existence is about as important to Herzlians as a stubbed toe: ‘kinda bad’ but ‘no big deal’.
‘Herzlian’ is a less vague, less euphemistic description of the phenomenon, since ‘Zion’ has many definitions, not all of them referring to a physical location, and I would much rather associate ethnonationalism with Theodor Herzl than Zion.
What I find frustrating about this is that if somebody found anything even resembling this in Palestine’s besieged territories, we know—we know—that the Herzlians would be referencing it for months on end as ‘more irrefutable evidence’ that all Palestinians are antisemites. In contrast, Azov’s very existence is about as important to Herzlians as a stubbed toe: ‘kinda bad’ but ‘no big deal’.
Herzlians?
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Herzlian#Noun
Why not just say Zionist then?
‘Herzlian’ is a less vague, less euphemistic description of the phenomenon, since ‘Zion’ has many definitions, not all of them referring to a physical location, and I would much rather associate ethnonationalism with Theodor Herzl than Zion.