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Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism
(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - Is it antisemitic to criticize Israel? Of course not. Is it antisemitic to rage day in, day out against Israel? To think of little else? To let this tiny state occupy your every waking thought? To call it uniquely barbarous, demonic, a nation that lusts after blood like no other? To dream of its destruction? To traipse through the streets every week hollering for its obliteration? To devote yourself so singularly to this one nation's erasure that you come to define your entire political personality by that goal and proudly declare yourself an "anti-Zionist"? Yes, that is antisemitic. If you maniacally obsess over the Jewish homeland, and detest Jewish nationalism more than any other nationalism, and gleefully chant for the death of the Jewish nation's soldiers, and fantasize about the violent excision of the Jewish State "from the river to the sea," then you have a problem with Jews. We are not talking about criticism of Israel. We are talking blind hatred for Israel. Hysteria about Israel. The fantasy of Israel's death. The wild and demented conviction that Israel is the most murderous state in existence, if not the most murderous state ever, and that it wields staggering power over the obsequious nations of the West. That's a species of madness. Show me one other anti-war movement that called not only for an end to war but for the end of an entire nation. Name one other nation that finds its entire right to nationhood ceaselessly called into question, like it's normal to pine publicly for the erasure of a nation of nine million souls. If you have sworn yourself solely to the upending and elimination of the project of Jewish nationhood, then you can't be too surprised if someone calls you a Jew-hater.