diasporist

plural diasporists

1. JudaismA supporter of diasporism (an ideology in contrast with Zionism which focuses on strengthening Jewish communities across the world).

   Unlike [Dory] Manor and other prominent figures among the "diasporists," there are also many opponents of the phenomenon and its significance, which the writers quoted in this story attribute to it.

   2025 April 17, Ithamar Handelman Smith, “How did Hebrew become a hot literary trend in the Diaspora?”, in Haaretz, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2025

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   Diasporism's limitations emerge starkly when one applies the concept to another people: the Palestinians. The statelessness of the Jewish past, after all, still describes the Palestinian present. The notion that Palestinians ought to accept their lot in the name of a high-minded ideology would strike Jewish diasporists, who tend to favor Palestinian self-determination, as noxious.

   2024 January 14, Marc Tracy, “Is Israel Part of What It Means to Be Jewish?”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jan 2024

1. not comparablePertaining to or supporting Jewish diasporism.

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   The sovereign state of Israel is a 76-year-old material reality — one that is home to over seven-million Jews. So, for diasporist Jews to speak as though the legitimacy of Israel — and Israel alone amongst the nations — is up for debate, is rather like arguing for infanticide as nothing more than a continuation of the 20th-century debate around legal abortion.

   2024 June 16, Barbara Kay, “The glaring silence of Jewish studies departments as anti-Israel mobs overrun their universities”, in National Post, Toronto, Ont.: Postmedia Network Canada Corp., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Jun 2024