Amazing video of Jewish leaders meeting with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in NYC

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31. Until '48, anti-Zionist Jews were strong if not dominant within the Jewish Diaspora

There is the Ultra-orthodox objection based in theology, as you captured, and then there's the progressive secular perspective that has a separate list of issues with some forms of political Zionism.

Zionists have long been viewed slightly suspiciously as zealots by secularized Jews who became successfully assimilated in a number of countries in the 19th and early 20th centuries. They still are taken as threatening and extreme, in their current iteration as Likudists and extreme Right-wingers, unwilling to constructively negotiate territorial issues or get along with some neighbors.

Ahmadinejad is seen by many as the flip side of the same extremist coin.