The Miracle of Zionism

"Israel is the only nation in the world that is governing itself in the same territory, under the same name, and with the same religion and same language as it did 3,000 years ago." - Historian Barbara Tuchman

"Israel is the only nation on the face of the earth that was created by a sovereign act of God" - Pastor John Hagee

"All things are mortal but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?" - Author / Atheist, Mark Twain (long before the Holocaust and Israeli-Jewish statehood)

"They are the most glorious nation that ever inhabited this Earth. The Romans and their Empire were but a Bauble in comparison of the Jews. They have given religion to three quarters of the Globe and have influenced the affairs of Mankind more, and more happily, than any other Nation ancient or modern." - President John Adams - His 1808 response letter criticizing the depiction of Jews by the French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Anti-Zionism Political Word Definitions

Words are thoughts expressed. When words become too revealing as to the motive of the heart, code words or "masked" words are then developed in order to dilute the cold reality and lessen the effect. Some politically-motivated words are designed to completely hide an outright act of injustice and iniquity that the thought-expresser wishes to complete. One great example of this that most everybody is aware of is Nazi-Germany's "The Finial Solution to the Jewish Question / Problem". On the surface the statement looks as though there is an established political problem of which there is a solution to fix that very problem. However, when one digs deeper into this masked statement of problem-fixing it is referring to racial mass-murder of millions.

During the Inquisition, to torture and then murder the victim was termed as to "relax" the blasphemer. The term "religious murder" of the very act was way too revealing, therefore a masked and less condemning term (who can find something wrong in "relaxing") had to be used by the ruling power that was responsible for the acts of murder.
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Today the Jewish communities are still being dealt code and masked terminologies by the Quartet (United Nations, European Union, Russia, USA) Non-government organizations (NGO) world media (newspapers, television, web-sites, radio broadcast, ect.) university professors, church leaders, and Jew-hating activists (including the Jewish self-hating ones). In today's antisemitic world, the term "Jewish presence" is masked under the simple and seemingly nonracial term of "settlements". According to the UN/Quartet, "we sure can't have those "settlements" running around". We need to run those illegal "settlement-expansions" out of their ancient heritage country. Those "settlements" must be stopped for the purpose of world peace! The new English term for Nazi Germany's "Judenrien" is now become "Settlement-free"! The term "Settlement-freeze" literally means "Jews-in-their-ancient heritage homeland-freeze".

In order to delete the confusion of the UN/Quartet's religious, media, and activists' agenda, an anti-zionism / anti-Israel definition of code-words and phrases are needed. I plan to continually update the following list often due to the ever-evolving techniques used by the Quartet's world government power, non-government organizations, and the world medias.
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Disengagement (Plan) -
  1. Latest mass Jewish "expulsion" since 1939 Nazi Germany due to US-lead Quartet power and pressure.

Freedom Fighters / Militants / Resistance movements / Extremists
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  1. Arab-Muslim terrorists dedicated to Islamic jihad through Koranic and Hadith inspiration to destroy Israel first and foremost, by which the very foundation of their Islamic religion is directly threatened.

(Moderate) Mahmoud Abbas -
  1. The second Mahmoud in the world (the first one comes from Iran) who is a government leader and a Holocaust Denier at the same time, and who wishes for the complete destruction of the State of Israel. > http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1210668639247&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull
Land for Peace -
  1. Biblical land - actually "Holy Land" - land, given to Islamic Jihadist for the advancement of "jihad" according to the Palestinian "phase-stage" plan of Israel's destruction.
"Occupation" of the West Bank -
  1. The Jewish "Recover-azation" or "Re-occupation" of ancient Judea and Samaria.
Religion of Peace -
  1. World-submission to Islamic Sharia Law by whatever terroristic means available and necessary. Terrorist Muslims believe that a Western world under Islamic rule (i.e. a Western world under Islamic sharia law) will bring an Islamic "world of peace". There is no other way for Islamists to think when "Islam" means "surrender" your will (i.e. surrender your will towards Western values) and is taken from the Arabic root word "salam" meaning "peace".
Terrorists -
  1. Jewish nationalists who believe in responding Biblically in Davidic fashion (an eye for an eye) to Arab-Muslim religious terror.
Palestine -
  1. The Biblically-unrecognized name-change of the historic land of "Israel" done by Jew-murdering Gentiles - from the Jew-murdering Roman emperor Hadrian to the modern Jew-murdering Quartet. > http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/94461)
Palestinian People -
  1. Non-historical based (yet UN/Quartet recognized) people who speak the language, are given names, and worship in the religion that is directly connected to Arabia.
  2. A non-indigenous people squatting on ancient Jewish and Biblical land for the purpose destroying the covenant that the God of Israel has with that land and the Jewish people. > http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_mandate_angloamerican_1945.php
Palestinian State -
  1. A spiritual "Philistine-State".
  2. A UN/Quartet sponsored "Islamic terrorist-state". Note: "Hamas" the elected ruling party, who would govern a "new" state, has for years been classified by the US, the EU, Canada, and Japan as a "terrorist organization! > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas
Settlement(s) -
  1. Since the Holocaust and therefore the heightened awareness of antisemitism, this words stands in the place of "Jew(s)" or "Jewish presence". "Jewish-settlements" in Judea and Samaria creates a "Jewish-presence problem" much like the Jewish-residents caused a "Jewish-presence problem" for the Nazi party in Germany, where a "solution" (i.e. a "Finial Solution") was thought to be needed.
Settlement Freeze -
  1. A "Biblical Prophecy" Freeze.
  2. UN/Quartet world sanctioned antisemitic racism in the ancient Judea / Samaria housing development.
Roadmap Plan -
  1. Saudi penned (with 'oil' ink) and UN/Quartet sponsored phase-plan for the complete destruction of the State of Israel.
East Jerusalem -
  1. A portion of the Capital of Judaism allotted by the Quartet to become a Jew-free Muslim city that incorporates the entire Temple Mount platform of where two ancient Jewish temples stood and where the third future Jewish temple is prophesied to stand forever.
  2. A major step concept in separating the historical and spiritual connection of Jews, the Land of Judea, and "all" of Jerusalem, from Hebrew Biblical prophecy.
Quartet
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  1. Four separate world powers (literally a foursome of nations) united for the sole purpose of implementing the Saudi-penned, "Jihad Phase Plan" (Roadmap) in ultimately destroying the State of Israel. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartet_on_the_Middle_East
The antisemitic Quartet leaders include but not limited to:
  • United Kingdom — Special Envoy Tony Blair
  • United Nations — Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
  • European Union — High Representative Javier Solana
  • United States of America — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
  • Russian Federation — Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) -
  1. "United Nation of Jewish Human Rights Abuse" (UNJHRA).
  2. The official world condemner of the State of Israel (Israel "26 times" - Iran, Sudan, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba - a combined "0 times").
  3. Israel-condemnation wing of the UN organization.
  4. United Nations "Haman" (see the book of Esther) Rights Council.
Right of Return -
  1. Israel as a "Jewish" State Reversal Plan.
  2. The goal of flooding millions of Islamic terrorist minded Arabs in Israel proper - not into a "new" Palestinian state. Believe it or not, this is part of the "peace" negotiations that the UN/Quartet is pushing with all their worldly might!
Two-State Solution -
  1. Second (Finial) Solution.
  2. Islamic Hamas Terrorist-State living side-by-side "in peace" while the existence of the State of Israel continues threatens the core foundation of the religion of Islam.
Pre-1967 Green-line Borders -
  1. A literal invitation by the UN/Quartet towards Israel for them to commit national suicide by staying within the 1967 pre-Six Day War "green-lines" dubbed "Auschwitz lines".
  2. The UN/Quartet allowance of ancient Jew-haters the best possible border situation for the planning and carrying out the destruction of Israel - exactly like the pre-Six Day War situation.
Peace Process -
  1. "More Jews will have to be Murdered Process".
FACT: Less Israelis die while in a state of war with the Murderous Palestinians than during times of "signed" peace agreements with them!

Radical Islam -
  1. "True Sharia-Law Islam"
  2. "Muhammad's Islam"
Fact: The highest example of a "true Muslim" is Islam's prophet and founder Mohammed himself (Koran 33:21). Therefore the terrorism within Islam is NOT a product of so-called "hijackers" of Islam, but from the very origins and revelations of the "prophet of terrorism" himself.
"I will "cast terror" into the hearts of those who disbelieve. So smite above the necks and smite every finger-tip of them." - Koran 8:12
"Fight those who believe not in Allah, nor in the Last Day" - Koran 9:29
"We will "cast terror" into the hearts of those who disbeieve..." - Koran 3:151

Zionist -
  1. Post Holocaust term for a "Jew" used by European and Muslim Jew-haters in order disguise themselves from being obviously spiritually linked to the European and Muslim pre-Holocaust Jew-haters such as Adolph Hitler and Haj Amin Al Husayni. It is also used by such Jew-haters in an attempt to detach the word "Jew" from the land of "Judea".
  2. One who believes that the term "Jew" in directly associated with the ancient land of "Judea" and that "Jew" and "Judea" are nouns derivative of each other.
  3. The European Jews, and their descendants of who ran from Hitler's ovens during the Holocaust back to their ancient homeland of their forefathers and the land from where their religion is based.
  4. A Jew or Jewish descendant whom Hitler failed to murder in the eyes the anti-Zionist Jew-haters.

West Bank - 1. A Quartet term designed to ignore the historical connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Judea under the Kingdom of Judah from which Jewish David ruled the entire nation of Israel.
Jewish Biblical cities in today's so-called "West Bank" include but not limited to:
  • Jerusalem - City of Jewish King David and place of two holy temples and placement of the holy Ark of the Covenant.
  • Hebron - City where Jewish King David reigned for eight years and the burial site of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel).
  • Bethlehem - Birth place of Jewish Jesus (founder of Christianity)
  • Cites of the Levites and "Cities of Refuge" (see Numbers 35).
  • Jericho - The conquered city of the Canaanites by Joshua and the ancient Israelites.
Al-Taqiyya - 1. The Islamic virtue of lying or creating a falsehood disguise for the promotion of Islam. Examples of taqiyya include:
  • Denial of the two Jewish temples that stood in Jerusalem because Islam doesn't want a third Jewish temple there.
  • Denial of, or the minimizing of the Holocaust because Islam despises Jewish sympathy.
  • Claiming that the Israelis murder Palestinian children while shahid martyrdom is taught in Palestinian elementary schools and television children shows.
  • Declaring the Israeli Jews to be Nazis while having great admiration for Haj Amin Al- Husseini.
  • Declaring that you don't oppose Jews, just the "Zionists" while teaching your three year old to say, "Jews are dogs".

47 comments:

Anonymous said...

torontosun.com has a good article headlined
"OPINION: Here's why anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism"
by Michael M. C. Reardon, Shuvaloy Majumdar
Published Jan 28, 2022

Anonymous said...

From aish.com an article is
headlined
"Yes, Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism"
by Bret Stephens

Anonymous said...

intelligencesquared.com has a good article headlined
"Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitism"

Anonymous said...

bostonglobe.com has an article headlined
"Make no mistake: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism" on
March 20, 2022 by Jeff Jacoby

Anonymous said...

thejewishstar.com
has an article headlined
"10 reasons why anti- Zionists are, ipso facto, authentic antisemites"
Posted December 21, 2022

By Jarrod Tanny Very Good Article

Anonymous said...

religionnews.com
has an article headlined
"Seven reasons why people are Zion-phobic" on April 21, 2015
by Jeffrey Salkin

Anonymous said...

nationalreview.com has an article headlined
"Criticizing Israel Is Not Anti-Semitic"
By DENNIS PRAGER on
August 20, 2019 This article does however Explain why Anti-Zionism is indeed Anti-Semitism

Anonymous said...

The New York Times
nytimes.com has an article by
Bret Stephens headlined
"Anti-Zionism Isn’t Anti-Semitism? Someone Didn’t Get the Memo." on
May 24, 2021 About how
Anti-Zionism is indeed Anti-Semitism

Anonymous said...

jewishjournal.com
has a good article headlined
"Anti-Zionism Worse than Anti-Semitism" by
David Suissa on
May 29, 2019

Anonymous said...

israeltoday.co.il has an article headlined
"Anti-Zionism is an Existential Threat to Israel"
by Tsvi Sadan on
July 26, 2021

Anonymous said...

A Christian recently typed on Facebook in Support of Israel and the Jewish people that
"The Hebrew meaning of the word Zion is, the marked one, as in putting a flag on a land to say, it belong to someone.
In the Bible, Israel, and specially Jerusalem, is called Zion; God says..’Zion, My Holy Hill’.
Hill in the Bible is a symbol for a kingdom; God’s holy hill, Zion, is the name of His Kingdom to come; it is the marked kingdom with God’s flag.
All believers, Jew and gentile, will end up in God’s Holy Hill, and therefore, all believers carry the name Zion; we are all Zionists as we are all citizens of God’s Kingdom. And the devil, knowing that, he is attacking this very word Zion, which represents God’s Kingdom."

Anonymous said...

The Jerusalem Post
jpost.com has an article headlined
“Anti-Zionism is anti-humanity”
By GOL KALEV Published: OCTOBER 28, 2022 Very Good Article

Anonymous said...

The Jerusalem Post
jpost.com has an article headlined
"A response to anti-Zionist Jews"
By GIL TROY on APRIL 26, 2022
Good Article

Anonymous said...

jewishjournal.com
has an article headlined
"Now is the Time to Call Out Anti-Zionist Activism"
by
Alexandra Ahdoot on
June 9, 2023

Anonymous said...

Joe , the Jerusalem Post
jpost.com has an article headlined
"Anti-Zionism: A blessing in disguise? - opinion"
By NAYA LEKHT Published: JULY 11, 2023 What do you think ?

Anonymous said...

tabletmag.com
has an article headlined
"The Cult of ‘Antizionism’"
BY
IZABELLA TABAROVSKY on
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Anonymous said...

The Jerusalem Post
jpost.com has an article headlined
"Zionism is not the evil ideology non-Jews are bastardizing it into"
By BEN M. FREEMAN AUGUST 29, 2023

🌎 said...

algemeiner.com on
MARCH 29, 2023 has an article headlined
"Judaism Can’t Exist Without Zionism"
by Sabrina Soffer

Anonymous said...

The Jerusalem Post
jpost.com had an article headlined
"Zionism is not racism: A speech 40 years ago"
By CHAIM HERZOG Published: NOVEMBER 9, 2015

Anonymous said...

blogs.timesofisrael.com has an article headlined
"Is Zionism racism? " by Alan Silverstein
Jan 31, 2024
A Must Read Article

Anonymous said...

The Jerusalem Post
jpost.com has an article headlined
"The return of the accusation that ‘Zionism is Racism’ "
By ERIC R. MANDEL Published: JULY 2, 2021

Anonymous said...

The Jerusalem Post
jpost.com has an article headlined
"Anti-Zionist Jews are fringe voices – it’s time we ignore them"
By ADAM MILSTEIN Published: FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Anonymous said...

tabletmag.com has an article headlined
"Jewish Voices for Hate"
BY
JOEL K. GREENBERG
DECEMBER 18, 2023
About how Anti-Zionism is bad and evil

Anonymous said...

coloradotimesrecorder.com has an article headlined
"The Shomer: If Anti-Zionism Isn’t Antisemitism…"
by
David Flomberg
posted on
June 20, 2024

Anonymous said...

The Jerusalem Post
jpost.com has an article headlined
"Anti-Zionism is antisemitism: Here's the proof"
By GINA ROSS Published: DECEMBER 22, 2023

Anonymous said...

Dani Ishai Behan typed online today
"A humble request for my fellow Zionists

If you see some antisemitic dumb f--k claim Israelis/Jews are "white" or Zionism is "white colonialism"

Please, PLEASE, don't answer them with "but most of Israel is Sephardic/Mizrahi/other non-Ashkenazi".

Instead, point out that Jews are INDIGENOUS to Israel and that Europe is where we were EXILED. We never lost our original ethnicity and, in fact, were persecuted (and eventually mass murdered) by Europeans for being brown-Oriental foreigners, swarthy Asiatics, an "Arab horde", etc.

Saying that Israel isn't a white/European settler state because "most of its inhabitants are not Ashkenazi" implies, to the reader, that Ashkenazim ARE white-European settlers "but that's OK because they're not the majority anyway". This is erasive as hell and, in many ways, re-traumatizing - especially since we're now hearing these antisemitic views about Ashkenazim validated by *our own community*.

I do not exaggerate when I say that it feels like we're being colonized all over again. Because that is how it feels. At least to me.

And as someone who was once anti-Zionist, I promise you: they already know that Mizrahim exist. Many of them also know that Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews are the majority. They don't care.

They. DON'T. Care.

The aim is and has always been to whitewash Ashkenazim and frame Zionism as a sort of Jewish version of Manifest Destiny - a colonial movement spearheaded by "fake Semites"/"Khazarian" LARPers whose only tie to the Middle East is some religious Bronze Age mythology. Mizrahim, on the other hand, are just hapless "Jewish Arabs" who got caught up in the "European" Zionist's scheme and betrayed their "Arab brothers".

Israel's critics don't care that most of Israel's population is non-Ashkenazi. That does not address the "original sin" of Israel's "founding" i.e. "Europeans" with allegedly no tie to the land whatsoever "stealing" the country from "indigenous brown people".

If you want to dismantle the anti-Zionist's web of lies, you must first start with that."

Anonymous said...

blogs.timesofisrael.com has an article by
Dani Ishai Behan
headlined
"On The Theatrics Of Inversion: How Indigenous People Became ‘Settlers’ "
OCT 16, 2021

Anonymous said...


Indigenous Coalition For Israel

indigenouscoalition.org has an article by Dani Ishai Behan headlined
"Guest Post: Anti-Zionism is an inherently colonial cause"
April 3, 2022

Anonymous said...

jns.org has an article headlined
"Zionism is about love"
by Matthew Schultz
August 14, 2024

Anonymous said...

jns.org has an article headlined
"The Nazification of anti-Zionism"
by Ben Cohen
August 30, 2024

Anonymous said...

thepublicdiscourse.com has an article headlined
"Anti-Zionists Misread the Bible"
November 18, 2015
By Gerald R. McDermott

Anonymous said...

blogs.timesofisrael.com has an article by
Daniel Ben Abraham
headlined
"The Beauty of Zionism"
April 29, 2024

Anonymous said...

YouTube has a video titled
"Debunking Anti-Zionism in
Christianity" on May 3, 2024
by Chosen People Ministries

Anonymous said...

israelmyglory.org has an article
in January/February 2014 by Bruce Scott headlined
"Christian Anti-Zionism: On the Wrong Side of History, Justice, and the Bible"

Anonymous said...

fathomjournal.org has an article from
April 2022 headlined
"An Open Letter to Anti-Zionists from a Veteran of the Left"
by Kathleen Hayes
Only parts of this article are
False , there is No
Israeli "Occupation" Never Was
And all the alleged
"Sufferings" of the
Fakestinians are their Own Fault

Anonymous said...

commentary.org has an article headlined
"The Olympian Self-Deception of Anti-Zionists"
by Seth Mandel
July 23, 2024

Anonymous said...

quillette.com has an article headlined
"Anti-Zionism’s German Roots"
Gerfried Ambrosch
18 Nov 2024

Anonymous said...

blogs.timesofisrael.com has an article by
Justin Feldman headlined
"8 Reasons Why Anti-Zionism Is Always Anti-Semitism"
June 19, 2020
Thus Each and Every Individual Anti-Zionist , Anti-Semites when they all ultimately pass away they are
Forever Doomed
To Eternal Conscious Torment
Eternal Damnation in Hell and The Lake of Fire for their
Unforgivable SIN
Evil & Wickedness of
Anti-Zionism, Anti-Semitism

Anonymous said...

commentary.org has an article headlined
"Food for Thought for the Anti-Zionists"
by Seth Mandel
January 27, 2025

Anonymous said...

A person typed online in
June 2025
"Anti-Zionists are ethically equivalent to chauvinist judges who in the past (and still today in some parts of the world) blamed and punished a victim of rape for defending herself but ignored the criminal act of rape and the continued attacks by the rapist. Like those judges, anti-Zionists have the weight of authority behind them (in this case the highly anti-Israel United Nations). The chauvinist judges’ worry is that the victim of rape may overcome her attacker, just as the anti-Zionists’ anguish is that Israel has resisted hers."

Never Forget that
Anti-Zionism IS Anti-Semitism

Anonymous said...

thefp.com has an article
"What Anti-Zionism Really Is"
By Adam Louis-Klein
October 6, 2025
This article says
"After three months in a remote Amazonian village with no internet or phone signal, I returned to a small Colombian town on October 9, 2023—still in the rainforest, but now with internet—and checked social media for the first time. The jungle was still in my ears—squawking macaws, torrential rain, the low hum of a generator—when my screen filled with images from another world entirely: young people sprinting through dust and gunfire at the Nova music festival in Israel.

I had crossed between worlds, only to find that the world I returned to was no longer the same.

The deeper shock came in the hours that followed, as I scrolled through the reactions of friends and colleagues. Denial, justification, and open hostility toward anyone who expressed care for Israelis. I typed a simple phrase—Am Yisrael Chai, “the people of Israel live”—and learned that, in my circles of left-wing academia, that too was considered an act of aggression.

Almost immediately, I saw that a colleague had commented with a photo of people burning an Israeli flag. A former friend declared that my words revealed me as nothing but a “filthy Zionist.” Longtime intellectual collaborators informed me it was unacceptable to work with me given my support for the Jewish people. For them, even calling Jews a “people” was offensive and “right-wing.”

In the days following October 7, I was already experiencing what Marion Kaplan, in her study of Jewish life under Nazi Germany, terms “social death”—complete ostracization and the cutting of one’s previous social bonds. I was beginning to understand that to be a Jewish intellectual—to be a person who speaks in a Jewish voice, and who sees his fate as bound up in the collective fate of the Jewish people—was simply not something the academy could accept.

But I wasn’t about to submit. I knew that Jewishness was as legitimate a site as any identity from which to think, reason, and argue.

That was two long years ago. I have learned much in refusing to submit. Not just about the marginalization of Jews in the universities of the West, but about the enduring value of distinct peoples and voices—even in the face of a powerful ideological movement that uses the language of pluralism to conceal its demand for total conformity."

Anonymous said...

The article continues
"The Anti-Zionist Worldview
I had always been a good student. At my prep school, we read Antigone in Greek and the Aeneid in Latin. At Yale, I worked my way through the Western canon, from Aristotle to Hannah Arendt, in the Directed Studies program.

I first became an anthropologist because I was searching for something beyond the Western philosophical tradition I had studied. I wanted to understand worlds that were not my own. What I didn’t quite understand was that the twenty-first-century academy would demand that I disavow my own.

By the time I began my PhD, I was fully immersed in the critical, anti-colonial thought that now dominates the academy—an orientation bent on interrogating and dismantling the West. But living alongside the Desana, an indigenous group in Brazil and Colombia, ultimately brought me back—back to an embrace of my own Judaism and back to my Western inheritance as one tradition among others. Instead of thinking against the West, I came to see the value of thinking across civilizations, between living peoples and the worlds they continue to sustain.

The Desana of the Vaupés region, in today’s Brazil and Colombia, are often described as marginal to the global economy. But in their own eyes, they stand at the center of the universe—a chosen people with a unique story. They call themselves the Ümücori Masa, the universe-people, descended from the universe-person, or God.

For them, chosenness simply means peoplehood. In the early twentieth century, Catholic missionaries destroyed their traditional longhouses and forced them into mission towns. The surrounding Spanish-speaking society showed little interest in their memory or survival. In response, the Desana have fought to preserve their sacred names and endure as a people.

In the same way in which antisemitism once cast the Jew as the world’s metaphysical enemy, anti-Zionism now casts Israel and its supporters in the same role.

Today, we work together to translate old texts about the Desana into their own language—restoring the name of their God, re-centering their sacred lineages, and helping turn the historical record into a living part of their future.

Their struggle to remain themselves in the face of erasure echoed 3,000 years of Jewish history and what I found on my return: a so-called liberal world where Jewish distinctiveness is no longer tolerated, where Jewish continuity is recoded as a threat, where Jewish power is seen as illegitimate.

Nowhere is that worldview more powerful than in the academy. There, educated elites are being taught that it is righteous to hate Jews.

They call that world view anti-Zionism.

While anti-Zionism introduces itself as a “political opinion,” I came to see that it was something else entirely. Anti-Zionism, like antisemitism, is an entire cosmology. In the same way in which antisemitism once cast the Jew as the world’s metaphysical enemy, anti-Zionism now casts Israel and its supporters in the same role.

I began to study anti-Zionism the way I might study any culture’s system of meaning: its myths, rituals, and taboos. It functioned as a symbolic system, its force drawn from recurring metaphors—genocide, settler-colonialism, apartheid—ritually deployed not to clarify but to accuse, forming a closed circuit of moral judgment, reproduced across academia, media, and international organizations."

Anonymous said...

& continues
"A major mistake would be to think that anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism as an actually existing political ideology. Instead, it constructs a fantasy “Zionism” as a cosmic symbol of global injustice itself, one in which every possible crime—including U.S. police violence, trans exclusion, 9/11, even the climate crisis—converges in the image of Israel’s evil.

The central operation of anti-Zionism is libel. Anti-Zionists bypass the charge of antisemitism by redirecting their defamation at Israel and “Zionists” rather than Jews. By repeating accusations without serious demonstration or credible sourcing, they produce the appearance of an incontestable reality: a displaced evil attributed to “Israel.”

Anti-Zionists repeatedly claim that they are simply criticizing Israel. What makes the difference between critique and libel is not what is said, but how it is proffered, whether it belongs in the space of reason—answerable to refutation—or travels merely through repetition.

People who have been targeted by anti-Zionism know the difference. They are not reacting to individual opinions but to an organized movement that marks Jews as suspect through their association with a libeled Israel. The common deflection—that Jews “assume” criticism of Israel is antisemitic because they believe in some “inherent link” between Israel and all Jews—misses the point entirely.

The central operation of anti-Zionism is libel. Anti-Zionists bypass the charge of antisemitism by redirecting their defamation at Israel and “Zionists” rather than Jews.

In truth, it is a projection by those uncomfortable with being called antisemitic, who may not understand how anti-Zionism actually works—as a closed system of accusation, designed to force Jews to disavow their identities.

What makes anti-Zionism so seductive in academia is the way it cloaks itself in the moral language of human rights. Words like decolonization, anti-racism, and solidarity circulate as moral currencies, exchanged for prestige and authority in the academy. Yet behind this pose of inclusion, anti-Zionism works as an exclusionary ritual.

For example, when I proposed hosting a single academic talk at my university, McGill, on the antisemitic genealogies of anti-Zionism, particularly on the Soviet roots of so much of today’s anti-Israel sloganeering—amid at least 10 events in my department on the so-called Gaza genocide—my request was denied without explanation.

Another colleague warned that the journal I worked on would become “untenable” if it published anything that spoke positively about Jews. The perspective rooted in Jewish peoplehood was simply not to be part of the conversation.

The Forgotten History
To understand how the anti-Zionist worldview took hold, we have to look at the history it so carefully avoids. For a movement so obsessed with historical injustice, it remains almost entirely ignorant of its own origins.

But its genealogy is not mysterious, if you care to look.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, collaborated with the Nazis, met with Hitler, and broadcast antisemitic propaganda to the Arab world. Husseini worked closely with the Muslim Brotherhood, one of whose offshoots eventually became Hamas.

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Haj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, inspecting Bosnian volunteers of the Waffen SS while giving the Nazi salute, 1941. (History/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Following Israel’s victory over the Arab League in the Six-Day War of 1967, the Soviet Union took up the cause. Their strategy was clear: After the Soviet proxies lost on the physical battlefield, they turned to ideological and information warfare."

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"As Izabella Tabarovsky and others have documented, Soviet “Zionology” turned classical antisemitism into a global discourse of liberation. Zionism was no longer a Jewish national movement of Jewish liberation, but rather, a world conspiracy of “U.S-Israeli stooges” to undermine socialism and Third World revolution. Zionism was cast as a form of “Jewish imperialism”—a term with Nazi origins—and Israel as the world’s moral pariah.

Inside the Soviet Union, the consequences were stark. Jews were barred from emigrating to Israel, Hebrew was outlawed, and Jewish cultural associations were shuttered. Those who persisted were arrested and tried as “spies” or “traitors” to socialism. To live openly as a Jew, to insist on belonging to the Jewish people, was recast as political criminality—a climate that echoes in today’s elite institutions. These Jews became known as refuseniks: refused visas to Israel, but also refusing to submit to an anti-Zionist regime determined to crush their Jewish spirit.

Born out of the alliance between Nazism and Islamism, the rhetoric that was adopted by the Soviets ultimately found a global audience through the UN and its web of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). In 2001, at the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, these ideas went mainstream—thanks to a decades-long campaign by Arab nationalist regimes, Soviet propagandists, and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), an umbrella group for the Muslim-majority states within the United Nations. The NGO forum revived the Soviet slogan “Zionism is racism,” circulated leaflets comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, and helped cement the “apartheid” libel in progressive discourse.

This is how antisemitism got repackaged in the moral idiom of human rights. The tropes migrated across different aesthetics and discourses—Nazi, Islamist, Soviet, and now the postcolonial left—each time repositioning “Zionism” as the axis of global evil. What started as Nazism became human rights, while Zionists—the modern name of Jews—were recast as “the new Nazis.”

The Genocide Libel
Nowhere is the logic of anti-Zionist accusation more stark than in the charge that Israel is committing genocide. This claim also dates back to Soviet propaganda in the 1970s—and within days of October 7, it was being triumphantly revived by activist professors across the West. Having reframed Jewish peoplehood as inherently oppressive, anti-Zionism seeks to criminalize it altogether—by redefining Israel’s very being as genocide: the “crime of crimes.”

This maneuver rests not just on propaganda, but on explicit efforts to rewrite international law. A small circle of academics has worked nonstop over the past two years to erase the distinction between war and genocide. Dirk Moses, editor of the Journal of Genocide Research—which in 2024 devoted an entire issue to accusing Israel—has argued for abandoning genocide’s core requirement of intent to destroy a people. In its place, he proposes that all “settler-colonial” states are guilty by definition. Within this logic, Israel does not need to commit extermination to be genocidal; it is guilty simply for being."

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"While millions today are told that a “majority of genocide experts” believe Israel is committing genocide, few realize that this supposed consensus rests on a very small circle of academics whose self-avowed project is to redefine and even abolish the concept of genocide itself.

Meanwhile, another group of scholars, including leading experts on antisemitism, have rejected the genocide libel outright. Yet their voices receive virtually no coverage in the mainstream press, which prefers the spectacle of accusation to the discipline of debate—excluding Jews from the conversation unless they serve as tokens to legitimize anti-Zionism.

Legal scholar Avraham Russell Shalev, for example, has argued that October 7 itself meets the legal threshold for genocide, given Hamas’s clear intent to annihilate Israeli Jews. He also notes that genocidal actors have often made reverse accusations—a pattern seen with the Nazis, the Serbs, and the Hutus.

Anti-Zionism is not a spontaneous reaction to Israeli policy. It is a symbolic ideology with a specific history. Its moral authority depends not on truth, but on inversion—of victims and aggressors, of genocide and self-defense. It thrives not through argument, but through erasure. This is its deepest function: to delegitimize the Jewish claim to peoplehood by refashioning an old hatred in the language of justice.

What Indigenous Really Means
To truly understand anti-Zionism, we must examine what it seeks to erase: the indigenous connection between the Jewish people and the land of Israel.

Anti-Zionism construes Jews as “colonizers”: an alien, outsider presence in the Middle East. The colonizer libel not only erases Jewish belonging, but enlists Jews as scapegoats for everything modern Western culture now seeks to disavow: racism, imperial violence, settler domination.

In the months following October 7—while still engaged in my work with the Desana people in the Amazon—I set out to peel back the ideological layers wrapped around this fashionable term and recover what indigeneity really means.

At bottom, indigeneity is simply a way of being a people, one in which land and lineage are braided together at the root of identity itself. For the Desana, peoplehood is inseparable from the Vaupés River and the sacred sites along its banks. Their ancestors are said to have arrived upriver in a snake-shaped canoe, guided by primordial beings, who established the clan houses from which souls are born and to which they return.

In today’s academy, however, indigeneity has been reduced to a claim of victimhood at the hands of European colonialism. It is fundamentally a reactive identity—defined only in opposition to “white settler” power. This narrowing of meaning flattens the richness of civilizational difference. By this logic, Jews—now cast as symbols of whiteness, empire, and Western dominance—are excluded in advance.

Indigeneity has been reduced to a claim of victimhood at the hands of European colonialism. It is fundamentally a reactive identity—defined only in opposition to “white settler” power.

Such a framework cannot account for histories of conquest and displacement carried out by non-Europeans. The Arab conquests of the seventh century reshaped the Middle East and North Africa in ways that perfectly fit the “settler-colonial” model now applied to Israel. As Egyptian Jewish historian Bat Ye’or has shown, these conquests suppressed local languages, marginalized non-Muslim peoples, and absorbed indigenous populations into an imperial order—not unlike the Catholic missions in the Amazon."

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"Yet none of this fits the fashionable narrative. So it is ignored.

Anti-Zionism erases the Jewish story by casting Jews as foreign oppressors. Yet that story is one of exile and return: from Ur to Canaan, from Egypt back to the land of Israel, and after centuries of dispersion, return again. Indigeneity, in this fuller sense, is not a reactive label for the colonized but a structure of peoplehood—a way of inhabiting place, memory, and time.

The Desana, too, tell of a great migration—from the mouth of the Amazon upriver to the Vaupés, where the world took form. For the Desana, to belong is to descend from a journey and to return to its source. What the Desana are to the Vaupés, the Jews are to the land of Israel: a people at the center.

The Space of Reason
I had gone to the Amazon to learn how a people could live at the center of their own world—defined not by others, but by their own destiny. I came back to the erasure of my own.

In all of the spaces I had once thought of as home—universities, cultural institutions, humanitarian NGOs—an ideology that demands the erasure of me and my people has taken hold.

Anti-Zionism’s spread through the institutions of our liberal democracy is a test case for whether equality and justice can survive once they’ve been hollowed out and turned into weapons of exclusion.

This is not only about academia, and it is certainly not only about Jews. It is about defending the right of any people to exist as themselves, to live in security, and to speak in their own voice.

If we fail to defend those basic values, the future will belong to those who erase entire peoples from the human story, twisting the language of justice into tools of violence, intimidation, and propaganda. We cannot let that happen.

The right of every people to stand in the space of reason—to speak, to be heard, and to be recognized as equals—is not a gift from the powerful. It is the birthright of humanity."

Anonymous said...

andrewpessin.substack.com has an article
"Protocols of the Elders of Anti-Zionism"
by
Andrew Pessin
June 16, 2025