Is "anti-Zionism" just a new form of anti-Semitism?

Question

Anti-Semites can't get away with blaming Jews for killing Christ, eating babies, etc... anymore so now they have to make up lies about Israel?

And none of this nonsense that anti-Semitism involves Arabs. Anti-Semitism is understood to be anti-Jewish.

Haven't you made the Jews suffer enough?

Answer 1

Sadly, yes, you are correct. The Jews are a peace-loving, free people and we should want to defend them and their ideals ... they are ours.

Edit: Duque argument: this is a well-reasoned answer, but its premise is shaky. You can find the crux and the flaw in the words "suspicious of Israel without hating Jews" Why are you suspicious of Israel or America? You can only be suspicious if you do not trust them. No, this does not equate to hatred of an individual, but it is an avenue that can lead to antisemitism, and the anti-Semites will travel down it and obscure their intent with such plausible sounding reason every time. You can certainly open the door for honest questioning of government, but if you keep holding the door open and fighting to keep suspicion in place, your intent goes beyond honest questioning.

Answer 2

Anti-Semitism is understood to be anti-Jewish?

Only by those who show they have no understanding at all. Anti-Semitic is against Semitic peoples. All ethnic Jews are Semitic, but not all Semites are Jews, ergo anti-Semitic cannot be said to be purely anti-Jewish. They're NOT one and the same.

Haven't you made reality suffer enough?

Answer 3

I really have to disagree with you on this point. We shouldn't confuse the issue.

To be anti-Jew is abhorrent and frankly a punishable crime, like it would be for being anti-black, anti-Chinese etc and I would attack (verbally) anyone who espoused those views.

Anti-Zionism however does have merit. To suggest that in order to accomodate the Jews from ALL OVER THE WORLD in Israel, people who have occupied the covetted lands must be displaced, attacked, subjugated and killed is equally abhorrent and I cannot subscribe to that philosophy.

Aren't we all agreed that the USA was founded on those exact basis and we are all agreed that it was wrong to have killed off the Natives?

Answer 4

Is this another pointed question from a left wing nut job?

The answer is yes, anti-Semitism is at a new high. Next thing you know we will have the Gestapo running in the streets with the brown shirts.

Answer 5

Anti-semitism is a worn out canard, an overplayed trump card used to try and marginalize people with valid criticisms of Israel, Zionism and the machinations of both.
The label is used to halt criticism or inquiry, and to associate, wrongly, those who criticize Israel and Zionism, with racists.
One can be critical of Bush, his administration and aspects of US policy without being "anti-American", just as many people are suspicious of Israel without hating Jews.
It's a desperate counter-attack used to stifle debate.
It's strength has deteriorated because most people know the ploy.

Answer 6

they actually advise 2 diffeent issues. Anti-American is being against what u.s. is and stands for. Un-American demands that the guy in question surely be an American, yet not stay as much as the standards of patriotic physique of strategies as desperate by potential of the only doing the judging.

Answer 7

2% of the population is always at risk of extinction as a compelling desire among men is an exact indoctrination to the values morals and ideology of the majority weather they are correct or not .