is anti-zionism the same thing as anti-semitism?

Answer 1

No. Anti-Zionism refers to views in opposition to Zionism, which is the movement that supports having Israel as the homeland for Jews.

Anti-semitism refers to hostility towards Jewish people in general.

Answer 2

While the definitions are different, anti-zionism is usually just thinly veiled anti-semitism. Zionism, the movement for a Jewish homeland, is often attacked by individuals and groups who want Israel destroyed. Its very difficult to explain a position like that without admitting some type of anti-Jewish (anti-semitic,) sentiment.

Answer 3

Anti-Zionism is often characterized by opposition to the existence of the State of Israel as a Jewish state, for instance by those who advocate a binational state comprising the territories of the State of Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, in which both Jews and Palestinians would be citizens. Other "Anti-Zionists", such as some Palestinian militant groups, call for the total elimination (by whatever means) of the Jewish presence in the region of Palestine, which includes the territory of the State of Israel.

While "anti-Zionism" is not defined in modern dictionaries, anti-Zionist polemic dates back at least to 1900,[1] and it was regularly used in the 1920s and 1930s in relation to events in the British Mandate of Palestine, when both Arab and Jewish organizations opposed the creation of a Jewish State in the area.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Zionism

Anti-Semitism (alternatively spelled antisemitism) is hostility toward or prejudice against Jews as a religious, ethnic, or racial group, which can range in expression from individual hatred to institutionalized, violent persecution. While the term's semantics may imply that anti-Semitism is directed against all people of a Semite descent, it is in fact used exclusively to refer to hostility towards Jews. The highly explicit ideology of Adolf Hitler's Nazism was the most extreme example of this phenomenon, leading to the genocide of European Jewry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism

Answer 4

No. Zionism is a circulate that replaced into began to create a house for the Jews in the Holy lands. i understand somewhat some Jews that are anti-zionist. they are of course not anti-semetic.

Answer 5

Anti-zionism, in most of its forms, is a manifestation of anti-semetism. Zionism is merely an expression of Jewish nationalism. Most nationalities express similar notions of homeland, nationalistic rights, and communal cohesiveness. Zionism is, as I said, just Jewish expression of this widespread idea.

The fact that some people see Zionism as being different than other nationalist movements is anit-semetic. They are holding Jewish nationalism to a different standard than other nationalities because of hostility towards Jews.

So yes, most of the time these two ideas are identical.

The exception to this is some Jews who object to Jewish nationalism on religious grounds, but this is our internal business, not the outside world's.

Answer 6

No.

Anti Zionism describes those who feel that the idea of Zionism is wrong. -Zionism being described as where some Jews feel because of the Holocaust it's their divine right to find some land to claim and populate and kill all the inhabitants that previously existed there all because Jews were persecuted by the Nazis and they therefore had to find some new place to live.

Anti Semitism is when people hate other certain people because they practice the Jewish faith.

Answer 7

Zionist believe that Isreal should extend from the Med. Sea to the Euphrates River as laid out in Ezkeal. Semites is a cultural group that includes Jews & Arabs. The term "Anti-semite" became , almost exclusively to Jews, as a result of the Holocaust and persecutions in nearly every western country. Our own included. I know many Jews who are anti-zionists.

Answer 8

fundamentally yes. If i was paying attention in social studies class, zionism is the belief that Jews should have their own homeland (Isreal), and semitism is the jewish faith in general. Along the same line but slighty different.

Answer 9

Zionism is not about the expansion of Israel. It is about the existence of Israel.
So at this point in time I will have to answer Yes, if not exactly the same thing, then definitely close.

Answer 10

No, but they often coincide.
Zionism refers to belief in the right of Israel to exist as a nation.
Naturally, any anti-semite would also be anti-Zionist, but there are those who wish no harm to Jews outside of Israel.