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I think my anger at the "anti zionism isn't antisemitism" brigade is more complex than that. Opposition to the idea of Jews having a homeland might be fine if you have an actual, cogent, alternative ideology by which you think people should live in the principles of equality. And it would have to be one Palestinians agreed to or it's pointless. But I think the concept of "anti zionism" as it's appeared in modern / fashionable circles, breeds antisemitism.
I wrote a post earlier on why:
First of all, the word “Zionism,” resonates for many people as an expression of hope for Jewish survival and liberation. Anyone who has read and knows the history knows they did not live free. Not anywhere. Not ever. But in our day the left has turned the word “Zionism” into an anti Jewish swear word of sorts, which they have constructed to mean whatever they want it to mean.
So in effect, the left defines Jews' Zionism for Jews, against their will, and without discussing it with them. It defines Zionism as racism or expansionism or support for apartheid. In so doing it defines most Jews against their will, as not decent human beings like the rest of humanity.
People who are hostile to Zionism have given the word "Zionism" a meaning that reflects their own hostility rather than the actual meaning of the word to the people whom it describes. On another thread, for example, the OP said she thought it meant "genocide" and "oppression". It certainly doesn't mean that to the people who are Zionists but if everyone defines them as that, then the damage is already done.
Anti Zionism is common amongst the modern left because it is based on what the Marxists see as an “idealist” system of living - equality and so on. It understands Israel as the manifestation of racist ideology (that Jews have an ethno state because they think they are superior), rather than it being a result of the material reality (that the history proved that Jews were actually unable to life in this "idealistic" world without being ritually killed and subjugated).
In the leftie mind, "Zionism" must be racism because a country that is majority Jewish and that is not a state for all its citizens past and present, must be racist. It figures that the state prioritises the rights of Jews, on the basis of their ethnicity or religion, over those of non-Jewish origin must be racist and bad. They dismiss entirely that for the last 700 years (including now) that the same applies to every Muslim state. It dismisses the reality that Jews lived for 600 years as Dhimmi (which truly is apartheid) and under constant threat of death.
That blatant double standard is justified with the idea that Israel should not exist anyway, as it was founded on the settler-colonial theft of land, which rightly belongs to “indigenous” Palestinians. They don't consider the possibility that Jews are also indigenous, or that Arabs may be migrants (a lot are).
It fixates on the idea that there are many Palestinians who are now not living where there families lived 100 years ago. But Jews today do not live where their families lived 100 years ago. Their families did not choose to move but were exiled or had to run away from certain death. Most of them did not choose where to go, they went where they would be allowed to go. And Jews obviously have family connection to other Jews.
Most perniciously of all, the new definition of “Zionism” in the modern left's imagination frequently characterises Jews as participating in dishonest global networks, conspiracies of lies and propaganda, in their own selfish interest. The idea of a "Israel lobby", controlling the world and policing what we say in order to allow them to continue being racist toerags without criticism. Even regular British Jews are accused each day of being part of this nefarious scheme.
So really modern "anti Zionism" often has little to do with proposing equality and multicultural ways of living together in equality. It more often that not targets solely Jews as underserving of freedom and safety from more dominant groups, and re-definitely their perfectly understandable hopes for the things all others take for granted as an expression of their negative characteristics.
So "Zionists" become a kind of evil sub set of people, and by portraying the overwhelming majority of Jews in the world as the enemies of all that is good, anti Zionism brings back to life the general idea that most Jews are "bad". The idea of most Jews as the “enemy of the people” is re-ignited. Which really was (I hoped) an ideology that I thought was stamped out after the Holocaust.
So anti Zionism in and of itself isn't anti semitic. But certainly the way the modern left goes about it reignites a lot of most antisemitic myths and ideas history has seen. Which makes me very sad, as I am a leftie and had to disassociate from politics and so on because I felt discriminated against due to them allowing "zionists" to be demonised in the above ways.