Activists opposing anti-Zionism will hold a symposium in Toronto, Canada, on Sunday, illustrating how the movement to reframe anti-Zionism as discrimination against Jews is gaining ground.

The World Symposium Against Antizionism, the first gathering of its kind, will bring together around 20 speakers to discuss the Jewish community’s “failure to clearly name and address antizionism as a contemporary form of Jew-hatred,” organizers said.

The symposium was organized by Stop Antizionism, a US activist group founded last year, and Tafsik, an advocacy organization in Canada.

“Naming it the World Symposium Against Antizionism, we are saying to the Jewish community and to our bullies and to those who want to destroy Israel, we see you. We’re putting a spotlight on you. You are anti-Zionist,” organizer Naya Lekht of Stop Antizionism told The Times of Israel.

Those involved in the movement opposing anti-Zionism write the ideology as “antizionism,” without a hyphen, similar to the accepted spelling of antisemitism.

Lekht said on Monday that at least 600 attendees had signed up to join the conference, which will take place in Toronto, partly because the city is seen as a hotbed of anti-Zionist activism. Organizers plan on making the symposium an annual event, with next year’s taking place in the US.

Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro will deliver the keynote address, and six panels throughout the day will discuss issues such as the Soviet roots of anti-Zionism, the United Nations, anti-Zionism among Palestinians, and media disinformation. Panelists from Arab states will discuss Islamic........

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