The primary focus of the Zionist movement and the Israeli lobby is not combating anti-Semitism but rather combating critics of Israel’s colonial apartheid regime and the crimes it is perpetrating against the Palestinian people.

Zionists deliberately conflate Judaism with Zionism and assert every Jew is a Zionist, while Israel, on the other hand, calls itself a Jewish state. So when some people are deceived and view Israel’s war crimes against the Palestinians as Jewish crimes and hold Jews accountable, the Zionists vehemently denounce them and scream anti-Semitism.

By conflating Judaism with Zionism, committing their crimes and hiding behind the Jewish people, the Zionists intentionally blame Jews for the crimes Israel is committing in their name; in doing so, they instigate resentment, hatred and hostility toward Jews.

Through this conflation, they also seek to achieve a number of other goals: brand critics of Israel as anti-Semites to silence them, launch campaigns to outlaw opposition to Israel under the banner of anti-Semitism, detracting attention away from Israel’s war crimes to “the threat of anti-Semitism”, inserting fear in the hearts of Jews to pressure them to immigrate to Israel and tighten control over Jewish institutions.

However, people’s reaction is; if opposing Israeli colonialism, war crimes, apartheid and ethnic cleansing is anti-Semitism, then I am proud to be anti-Semitic. This is best expressed by the renowned Australian author, speechwriter, and film director the late Bob Ellis in his letter printed in The Australian newspaper on 29 October 2003: ‘Is it anti-Semitic to say it is wrong to bulldoze apartment blocks and leave the tenants with nowhere to live? Then I swear on the head of my grandmother Rachel Larkman that I am anti-Semitic too…’

Associating Jews with Israeli crimes, combined with the new Zionist definition of antisemitism, shows how little interest the Zionists have for Jews, not caring about the harm that causes them as long as it serves the Zionist colonial project in the heart of the Arab world.

In fact, the father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, didn’t perceive any conflict with anti-Semites. He even asked for their assistance and considered them allies for his colonial project in Palestine. In his diaries, he wrote, “The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic​​ countries our allies.”[1]

Since Israel is a settler colonial project, Jewish immigration is fundamental to its existence; without anti-Semitism, there would be no motive for Jews to leave their homelands and immigrate to Israel; that is why the Zionist project needs anti-Semitism to force Jews to go to Israel to keep it alive.

Yoav Litvin, an Israeli-American doctor of psychology neuroscience, wrote, in an article titled “Ethical Jews reject Zionism”, that “Zionists have always had an interest in fomenting anti-Semitism worldwide, with the goal of........

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