for some context, i was isolated from my community before i was antizionist, for reasons unrelated to the religion itself, but in my experience yeah
i wouldn't say antizionist jews are scarce necessarily zionism is absolutely entrenched in a way that antizionism is not. i was taught about israel in sunday school. i was not taught about it's history or lack thereof and i was not taught about palestinians nor was i taught about gaza strip or the west bank really at all. specific memories are pretty hazy in general for me because of the amnesia (unrelated), but i have this vague memory of seeing a map of "israel" and asking what the west bank was. pointing at the large almost tumor-like shape and saying that border didn't really make sense to me. it wasn't shaped like mountain ranges or rivers. it wasn't shaped like borders usually seem to be shaped. i think they told me it was part of jordan. i also didn't know what jordan was, and considering i also had no knowledge of palestine and i was young enough that adults knew everything anyway, i just,, accepted that into my understanding.
i learned about israelis building settlements in language that made it sound like a human rights project. building houses in the middle of nowhere i guess. saying stuff like "natural materials" and telling us the land was just desert so they were building houses there. i was also really bored. i was like 6 or 8 or something and did not want to be there.
so yeah they start young. they don't tell you all the details they just tell you what sounds good. i don't think i was in the most aggressively zionist spaces either it was a more casual sort of conditioning... but because some extent of zionism is all i've ever known in terms of community spaces and organized congregations, being antizionist often feels like community and congregation is something i won't be able to find again. it often feels like i won't be able to reconnect on any organized basis even if my disconnect wasn't related to all this.
side note btw i didn't learn the word "zionism" until much later (still before i learned about any of the history of "israel" and before i learned anything about palestine and palestinians). the word was mentioned and it was an unfamiliar word so i asked what it was. i was told something along the lines of "it's the belief that jews have a right to self determination" and i said something like "oh. that's good." i didn't know what self determination really meant either but that specific environment was one in which i had (and still have) a lot of walls up and since i didn't wanna feel stupid or be an inconvenience, i simply didn't ask what that meant. i just thought it sounded like a good thing.
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