This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict.Non-Zionism is the political stance of Jews who are "willing to help support Jewish settlement in Palestine ... but will not come on aliyah.
"[4] Generally, those groups of Ashkenazi (Western) Haredi Jews who participate in the Israeli government but do not believe in religious Zionism are known as "non-Zionists".
Dubnow himself was somewhat ambivalent towards Zionism as a political ideology, calling it "a beautiful, messianic dream" and seeing the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine as improbable.
Nonetheless, he did gradually warm up to some aspects of Ahad Ha'am's vision of Cultural Zionism later in his life and viewed a return to Zion as fitting for some Jews, albeit not for all.
Dubnow would never see the birth of the State of Israel, as he was murdered on December 8, 1941 during the march to the Rumbula forest, where the Nazi Wehrmacht and collaborators would kill 25,000 Jews.