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This isn't exactly the same, but it's pretty close. Here's Nikki Haley tweeting: "Anti-Zionism is antisemitism. No federal funds for schools that don't combat antisemitism." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/NikkiHaley/status/1720501916088590704



Anti-Zionism is asserting that the Jewish state should not exist in the land of Israel. It _is_ antisemitism. You can criticize current Israeli government and it's certain actions, while acknowledging Israel's right to exist and defend its existence.

There are plenty of people in Israel who are opposed to Netanyahu and were protesting against him before the war started, but don't doubt that destroying Hamas is justified.


Israel is an implementation detail, not a requirement. No state has a right to exist: people have rights, not states.


It is about people. Jews have right for their own state and the right to defend it.


Are Palestinians not people? What rights should they have?


They absolutely deserve their own state as soon as they make peace with Israel


Interesting. So having a state isn't a right. Or are you saying Palestinians are not people?

What does "making peace" with Israel look like? Why don't you consider the West Bank to be at peace with Israel?

Was modern Israel established by making peace with its occupants?


It is a right. But if your state attacks another state and loses, you are going to be occupied, tough luck, consider not attacking anyone next time.

Israel was established by consent of the legal owner of Palestine that day, British Empire, and was attacked by what you would call Palestinians today (Arabs living in former British Palestine) on the first day of existence - and never had a day of peace since then.

I in all honesty don't know what peace could look like today. It should embrace recognition of State of Israel in its borders (that's the easy part, but was never delivered from the Arab side) and realistic guarantees that it will not be attacked again (that one is hard).


> But if your state attacks another state and loses

What state attacked what state?

Gaza is not a state, Hamas is not a state government, it's a terrorist organization.

But also, what of the West bank, which has been at peace with Israel for decades. Why don't the Arabs living there have rights? Why are they without state? Because of the actions of terrorists in gaza? Should you share a punishment because you share an ethnicity?


> What state attacked what state?

Wannabe Palestinian state in 1948. Alliance of Arabic states in 1967. That's irrelevant detail IMO.

> Hamas is not a state government, it's a terrorist organization.

Tell that WHO that sees Hamas Ministry of Health as reliable source of information. Or current leadership of the West Bank that sees Hamas as legitimate partners moving on.

> Why are they without state?

Because they themselves don't see themselves separate from Gaza population. Never in the history did the leadership of West Bank go to Israel and say "we recognize you as a state, and want to make peace with you. Oh, and don't worry about Gaza, they don't have anything in common with us apart from ethnicity". Without recognition it's not a peace, it's a forced ceasefire.


They were granted a state on the same day as israel.


Which day are you referring to?


I assume 14th May of 1948 when British rule over Palestine ended.


Even if your definition here of Anti-Zionism was correct (it's not [1]), that is categorically different than what antisemitism is: a hatred of Jews, a belief in a global Jewish conspiracy, belief that Jews control capitalism / created communism, etc., belief that Jews are racially inferior, etc. Sure, people that are antisemitic can also be Anti-Zionist (e.g., the Ku Klux Clan). But so too can people be proudly Jewish and Anti-Zionist (e.g., most Orthodox Jews). People can also be antisemitic and Zionist (e.g., many evangelical Christians, Donald Trump, John Hagee, etc.).

Anti-Zionism and antisemitism are orthogonal ideas. Conflation of them is pure propaganda.

[1] "Although anti-Zionism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, all its proponents agree that the creation of the modern State of Israel, and the movement to create a sovereign Jewish state in the region of Palestine—the biblical Land of Israel—was flawed or unjust in some way." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism




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