Always interested in re-upping older but great reads. There was some discourse yesterday and today on this but this Peter Beinart piece is always good. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/mar/07/debunking-myth-that-anti-zionism-is-antisemitic

Obviously the agreement on whether antizionism is synonymous with antisemitism is disputed by Jews, especially those on the right are adamant about it being so and those more on the farther left disagree.

It’s important to remember that there are Zionists who absolutely are antisemites whether you want to admit it or not, for years there were leaders who supported Zionism for the sole reason of getting rid of Jews from their countries.

Others like Richard Spencer and a notable group Evangelical Christians support Zionism, Spencer being a white nationalist who hates Jews but likes Israel and calls himself a White Zionist. Evangelicals tend to hold very harmful views about Jews and their place within Israel.

There’s also antisemitism on the antizionist side. It’s true. But if Zionists can be and also aren’t all antisemitic, it’s fair to say that antizionists aren’t antisemitic by nature but some can be.

Beinart points out within data that in the US, the 65+ range has the one of the largest concentrations of antisemitism, but subsequently is also the most? pro Israel.

Gonna fight some antisemite who uses this thread to say some blatant antisemitism isn’t antisemitism. This thread may be unpopular with other Jews I know, but it’s important to have these conversations so we stop labeling some Jews as self hating.

How I’m waiting for the people unwilling to respectfully discuss this and go straight to calling me self-hating.

Funny thing is I’m neither really Zionist or antizionist because you shouldn’t have to pick a side or some shit, I have views that I believe are fair and I don’t know if there really is a label for me.