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Is anyone really still fooled by the ‘I’m not an anti-Semite, I’m an anti-Zionist’ gambit, any more? It’s never been anything more than the most obvious, self-serving bullshit. The old ‘I’m not racist, but…’ dressed up in a shitty tea-towel.
Even more than 15 years ago, comedian Sandy Gutman (aka ‘Austen Tayshus’) called out the obvious bullshit. When a typically smirking leftist on QandA tried the, ‘criticising Israel isn’t anti-Semitism, heh heh’ gambit, Gutman skewered them royally. If they weren’t just a plain old Jew-hater, he asked, why was Israel the only country in the Middle East they chose to relentlessly criticise? Why the hyper-focus on Israel, while the human rights enormities of Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, let alone ‘Palestine’ were let slide without comment?
So, yeah, don’t try and bullshit me with this ‘anti-Zionist’ crap: we can all see right through it. Maybe you’ve managed to convince yourself it’s true, because, goodness gracious, only Nazis hate Jews, and if the left know anything, it’s they’re not the Nazis. But, contra George Costanza, just because you believe it (and I rather suspect you don’t, really), doesn’t mean it’s not a lie. A big ol’ stinking anti-Semitic lie.
As science fiction writer Orson Scott Card recently put it, Anti-Zionism is the thin coat of shellac that Jew-haters use to pretend they’re not antisemitic.
Everybody sees through it. The only people who pretend that there’s a difference are the antisemites.
AntiZionism is to antisemitism as a square is to a rectangle. Not all rectangles fit the definition of squares, but all squares are rectangles.
And all anti-Semites are liars and intellectual shonks.
Jew-hating bigots who wish for the genocide of Jews accuse Israel of genocide. People who want to ghettoize Jews call Israel an apartheid state. BOTH charges are slanderous lies, antisemites accusing Israel of their own sins and desires. NonJews in Israel are freer and more prosperous than Muslims in any Muslim nation […]
If Israel’s neighbors had accepted the UN boundaries instead of attempting to slaughter Jews and wipe Israel off the map, there is no rational indication that Israel would not have remained within those borders. Jewish immigrants to Israel bought all the land they lived, farmed, or manufactured on – none of the land was stolen.
Palestine was an impoverished backwater of the Ottoman Empire until Jewish settlers, farming with rifles strapped to their backs, subdued the bandits that had long terrorized the inhabitants of Canaan. Only when Canaan had been pacified and economically stimulated by Jewish immigrants did Palestine become a desirable place to live. Then Arabs immigrated to Palestine precisely because of what Jews had made of the place.
My first response to the ‘Anti-Zionist’ numbnuts is: define Zionism. Almost invariably the result is spluttering indignation and a quick dodge to an unrelated-but-equally bullshit claim. Mostly, it’s because these little brownshirts don’t even know. They’re just parroting a weasel-word phrase they think let’s them off the Nazi hook.
If they do know, they won’t say, because acknowledging what ‘Zionism’ means immediately demolishes their flimsy gambit.
Zionism is, quite simply, the idea that Jews are entitled so self-determination in the ancient Jewish homelands. Jews are the indigenes of Israel, that simple fact is absolutely undeniable from the weight of archaeological evidence. Yet, the very same people who witter about ‘indigenous sovereignty’ in Australia or New Zealand, deny the very possibility of Jewish indigenous sovereignty.
Tell me again how that’s not anti-Semitic.
Their next gambit is to simply deny the Jewishness of Jews altogether.
Antisemites try to prove that not all Jews are descended from ancient Israelites, but it’s a stupid argument.
Almost no – I would suspect none at all – Māori or Aborigines today don’t have a ‘touch of the talcum’ (to turn around the old phrase) in their family tree. That doesn’t stop these pasty palefaces from claiming ‘indigenous’ status. But Jews are denied the same generosity.
Tell me again how that’s not anti-Semitic.
Before 1948, Zionism was a political project. After 1948, it became inseparable from the existence of the State of Israel.
So, even on its own ‘merits’ anti-Zionism is the same ideology of Hamas: the complete elimination of the State of Israel. Indeed, many leftists make no secret that this is exactly what they want to achieve.
Many states have contested histories. Pakistan’s creation involved mass displacement. Kosovo’s independence remains disputed. Numerous borders reflect colonial legacies.
Yet there are few sustained global movements dedicated to eliminating those states altogether. Policy disputes persist. Territorial conflicts endure. But there is not a durable, transnational campaign arguing that those nations should cease to exist as sovereign entities.
The Jewish state occupies a distinctive position in global political discourse: its legitimacy is debated not merely at its borders but at its foundation […]
In institutional settings and activist frameworks, opposition to “Zionism” has repeatedly functioned as a comprehensive ideological stance rather than a discrete policy disagreement. It frames Jewish sovereignty itself as inherently illegitimate – describing Israel’s existence, irrespective of borders or governments, as intrinsically racist.
Tell me again how that’s not anti-Semitic.
As Card bluntly says: Let no one be fooled by the lies of the Jew-hating anti-Zionists. They are murderous Hitlers and Himmlers in their hearts. They are all abetters of the monstrous crimes of October 7.
Now watch them pollute the comments.
