JERUSALEM -- In his comprehensive treatise on the subject of Judaism vs. Zionism, Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro writes, “The Jewish lifestyle is incompatible with the sword.” Violence and war are frowned upon in Judaism, which is one of the reasons that traditional, orthodox Jews by and large distance themselves from, if not completely rejecting, Zionism.
The Sword and The Book: How Zionism Does Violence to the Jewish Tradition
Glorifying war and violence is, like Zionism itself, an anathema to the Jewish faith.