Why do people hate the Zionists so much? They're as much a part of Palestine as any other group. I'm voting for them because they need a voice.
Let me tell you this, since you sound like someone who is new to Palestine. Take this from me, since I've lived in Palestine all my life, and in various areas of Palestine as well - Jaffa, Jerusalem, Nazareth, Haifa, and Eilat, for starters - and in neighbouring Trans-jordan. From experience, only British people would vote for either the Conservatives, the SDP, the Free Traders, the Christian Democrats, the Greens, or the **spits on ground** National Front - and even then, they bring their old prejudices from Britain with them. Thus, the impact of those parties are pretty minimal, at best. Plus,
no self-respecting Jew would
ever vote for the Zionists - just because someone's ancestors were of "European" ancestry doesn't mean that they are superior than anyone else - indeed, my ancestors were originally from
Spain, and they were expelled by Ferdinand and Isabella of Castile y Aragón in 1492. That's European, right? Apparently, not to the Zionists - only Ashenazi ancestry counts as "European"

rolleyes

, which obviously excludes the Karaites, the Mizrahim, and Sefardim like me. They are pretty much an arm of the British's policy of "divide and conquer", which no one likes. I'll bet you that the British are arming the terrorist groups on both side of the coin to further that policy.
They also have their own
delusional, elitist views that they think should be imposed on people, which makes most people angry. Take the PBS, for example. Now currently, it's a "public broadcaster", which means that it should be accessible to everyone, right? Not to the Zionists - no, they want to represent "high culture", which leaves it and the British as the only audience for the PBS. They deplore the Voice of Palestine (with the exception of its Music Programme) and the TV1 and TV2 channels for catering to what they see as "low culture" (especially when it shows advertising, due to PBS's chronic budget problems) - yet how else is one going to make public broadcasting accessible to all Palestinians? They also even criticize TV3, which was made specifically for the propagation of the elitist views of both the British and the Zionists!

eek

It doesn't help that the Ashkenazim are pretty much trying to squeeze out the Sefardim and Mizrahim from having a voice in society, which is partly why we have
so many privately-owned radio stations and TV channels. I listen to Voice of Palestine sometimes, as a force of habit, and I might occasionally watch TV1, but most of my radio listening and television viewing is from the private sector, which do a
very good job. The private sector, obviously, makes the Zionists nervous, since some of what they offer undermines the Zionists' own arguments - so they start trying to shut down private TV channels, which gets many people angry. Take the shutdown of the highly-popular Radio Jerusalem Television channel (RJTV), which was admired by everyone, including me. (Where else in Palestine are you going to get Shabbat services on TV, for those who can't make it to synagogue, or Christian services for those who can't make it to church, or Friday noon prayers for those Muslims who can't make it to the masjid, for example? PBS doesn't do
that.) When the Zionists attempted to get RJTV shut down, the whole city of Jerusalem shut down as there was not only one strike after another, but everyone was protesting in the streets. Even though RJTV was eventually shut down and replaced with TV3, people don't like the intrusions that the Zionists have been making - especially if you are Jewish. For a bunch of people who claim to espouse Marxist views, they are pretty much in the bourgeoisie rather than the proletariat.
And don't get me started on their views of a Jewish State - every Jew knows that only the Messiah would establish the Jewish State, and thus the view of "we must establish a Jewish State now" is tantamount to heresy. Oh, if only the Turks were back . . . . . . .
