|
Trending Topics
|
Anti-Zionism Is Deadlier than Antisemitism
(Wall Street Journal) Dr. Joshua Muravchik - Some say that anti-Zionism isn't tantamount to antisemitism. It's worse. Antisemitism always stings, but in the West today, it usually doesn't wound. For the most part, we dwell among our gentile neighbors in safety. Jews faced with anti-Zionism are under much greater threat. Since the birth of Israel, and its baptism by fire when the Arab states and local Arabs tried to destroy it, anti-Zionism can only mean the destruction of Israel, which is home to some seven million Jews as well as two million Arabs and other minorities. Iran's repeatedly proclaimed goal is to wipe Israel from the map. Hamas in its charter and Hizbullah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, in his speeches go further, saying they want to kill all the world's Jews. Hizbullah has slaughtered Jews at Iran's orders as far afield as Buenos Aires, but the real target is Israel. There is no escaping the reality that the end of Israel could only mean the death of millions of its Jews. The fulfillment of anti-Zionism means nothing less than a second Holocaust. The writer is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute of World Politics in Washington.