What is the difference, if any, between being anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist, and anti-Israel?

Answer 1

anti-Jewish: To dislike Jewish people

anti-Zionist: To dislike those people who say that the middle east is the promised land of the Jews and must be reclaimed at all costs.

anti-Israel: To dislike the Israeli government and its policies.

Of the three anti-Jewish is a deplorable position, and in my view, the other two are legitimate views

Answer 2

Very little, nowadays, IMO. Because being anti-Israel or anti-Zionist means that they necessarily agree with the Iranian president that Israel should be wiped off the face of the Earth. They agree that a Jewish state should be eliminated rather than accepted.

Israel has been a country for nearly 60 years now, and has fought many times against invading armies seeking its destruction. It has not only successfully repelled the attackers, but has prospered while doing so. They will never give it up now.

This is their country, and they will fight to the death to keep it. Why cannot people accept their existance? Whether it was right or wrong to re-create the state of Israel is now a moot point - it exists now and isn't going away.

And the "palestinians" who claim a right to return should get over themselves. Jews were driven out of Arab countries at the same time, having to abandon homes they've lived in for millenia, losing businesses and fortunes. They will never get back what they lost, either.

Isn't it time to move on?

Answer 3

a Zionist can be anyone who supports a homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel, where Jewish nationhood is thought to have evolved somewhere between 1200 BCE and the late Second Temple era, and where Jewish kingdoms existed up to the 2nd century CE

an anti-Zionist doesn't support this

Answer 4

anti-Jewish: hates Jews, Jewish culture and religion; stereotypes Jews.
anti-Israel: anything from blaming Israel for Iraq and 9/11 to doctoring news photos to make her look more aggressive to calling her a racist state that practices apartheid.
anti-Zionism: disagreeing with Israel's creation and denying her right to exist.

Not all Jews are Israelis, not all Israelis are Jews, and not all Zionists are Jews.

Lately, there is very little difference among these terms, as people who feel one usually feel all three, whether they admit it to themselves or not.

Answer 5

The word anti simply means to be against something.

Answer 6

anti jewish means you don't like the jewish religion and/or the people who practice it.

anti zionist means you don't believe in or want a jewish homeland. Zion was a holy city like babylon that god promised to the jews (in thier belief system) this biblical home was given to them by britain after WW2 and is now israel, before that jews didn't really have a country they'd been wandering the world since moses freed them from being egyptian slaves building the pyramids, they wandered the desert and then spread through the world.

anti israel means that you don't like the country that is now israel. you may dislike it cause they are jews or any other reason.

Answer 7

really...the difference is nothing.....anyone who is anti-SOMEthing....especially a race of people...is nothing more than an illiterate idiot to begin with.
HOWEVER....that being said, there is a little bit of anti-something in everyone....however small...even if we are anti-prejudice....see what i mean?

Answer 8

I think Ramsden pretty much summed that up in a nutshell.

Jews are decent God fearing people. They are fighting the same terrorists that we are.