The Antizionist Movement Is a Hate Movement: It’s Time to Say So |
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History repeats itself. Last week, hatred against Jews once again turned deadly.
During a Chanukah celebration for Australia’s Bondi Beach community, Jews who gathered openly were targeted in a brutal attack. At least fifteen people were murdered, including a twelve-year-old child, and more than forty others were injured.
This mass violence, directed at the Jewish community, did not happen in a vacuum. This atrocity was the predictable outcome of an antizionist movement that demonizes “Zionists” as uniquely illegitimate, casts them as “oppressors,” and claims that they are undeserving not only of a sovereign nation, but of dignity, inclusion, and safety.
After October 7, the pretense fell apart. What had long been defended as criticism of Israeli politics and policies revealed itself as something much more sinister: a hate movement that replaces “Jew” with........