When Donald Trump calls someone a socialist(社会主义者) he is not using the word in the same way that(以和……相同的方式), say, Zohran Mamdani(纽约市长，民主社会主义者) does. The mayor of New York espouse(信奉，拥护)s democratic socialism(民主社会主义) as a mission of equitable(公平的，公正的) distribution of wealth and opportunity. The US president says socialism only pretends to be democratic “because it sounds so nice”; that “it’s really communism you’re talking about” and that people such as Mamdani pose “the biggest threat to our nation … since its founding”.(美国总统说，社会主义只是假装民主，“因为它听起来太动听了”；“你说的其实是共产主义”；像马姆达尼这样的人构成了“自建国以来……我们国家面临的最大威胁”。)
唐纳德·特朗普口中的“社会主义者”，和佐兰·马姆达尼这类人使用这个词的方式并不相同。这位纽约市长信奉民主社会主义，把它当作一项公平分配财富与机会的使命。而美国总统却说，社会主义只是假装民主，“因为它听起来太动听了”；“你说的其实是共产主义”；像马姆达尼这样的人构成了“自建国以来……我们国家面临的最大威胁”。
People who despise(憎恶，鄙视) an idea, seeing it as the manifestation(体现，化身) of everything wicked(邪恶的), cannot be expected to define it accurately. As with the radical right and socialism, so it is with the left and Zionism.(极右翼对待社会主义如此，左翼对待锡安主义也是如此。)
人们若憎恶某种理念，视之为一切邪恶的化身，就别指望他们能准确地定义它。极右翼对待社会主义如此，左翼对待锡安主义也是如此。
There are interwoven(交织的) historical, biblical and intellectual strand(线索，脉络)s to the belief that Jews have an ancestral(祖先的) homeland on the eastern border of the Mediterranean. It is a belief that has evolved across centuries. It was expressed as liturgical yearning before being crystallised in the modern era as a political ambition to be safe from persecution, given urgency by mass slaughter before achieving realisation in 1948 with the foundation of the state now called Israel.(它最初表现为礼拜仪式中的渴望，到现代凝结为一种政治抱负——让犹太人不再遭受迫害；大屠杀使这一诉求变得紧迫，最终在1948年随着如今称为以色列的国家的建立而实现。) Since then it has been refract(折射)ed through different lenses of war and contemporary Israeli politics.
犹太人在地中海东岸拥有一片祖先家园，这一信念由历史、圣经与思想等多条线索交织而成。它历经数百年演变：最初表现为礼拜仪式中的渴望，到现代凝结为一种政治抱负——让犹太人不再遭受迫害；大屠杀使这一诉求变得紧迫，最终在1948年随着如今称为以色列的国家的建立而实现。此后，它又透过战争和当代以色列政治的不同棱镜被折射出不同面貌。