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Anti-Zionism

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The first large-scale anti-Zionist demonstrations in Palestine, March 1920, during the Occupied Enemy Territory Administration.[1] The crowd of Muslim and Christian Palestinians are shown outside Damascus Gate, Old City of Jerusalem.
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Antisemitic poster spotted at an allegedly anti-war rally in San Francisco on February 16, 2003, which incorporated both the motifs of "happy merchant Jews" and "Zio-Nazis". The slur ZIONIST PIGS[2] was also used.
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Antisemitic graffiti in Madrid, 2003, equating the Star of David with the dollar sign and Nazi swastika.

Anti-Zionism is the opposition to Zionism, an ideology for the creation and development of a Jewish homeland in the Jewish ancestral Land of Israel.[3] Those opposed to Zionism are known as anti-Zionists. Anti-Zionism emerged at the same time as Zionism, when diaspora Jews began migrating to Palestine and changing the local demographics. Many anti-Zionists have accused Zionism of being "settler colonialism".[4][5]

Reception

Public endorsement

Many anti-Zionists oppose the existence of Israel under various pretexts, including concerns about Jewish nationalism and Palestinian displacement. Anti-Zionism has been the strongest in the predominantly Muslim Arab world since early 20th century. Some anti-Zionists refer to Israel as "the bastard child of an evil ideology born in sin" as a "racist, settler-colonial state."[6] They accuse the Zionists of "pursuing ethnic cleansing, expulsions, theft and apartheid."[7][better source needed]

Some Middle Eastern media denigrate Israel as a "Zionist entity."[8][better source needed] Anti-Zionists also justify themselves by phrasing their arguments as mere criticism of Israel's policies, including the occupation of the West Bank, Golan Heights and the blockade of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.[9][10][11][better source needed]

Academic criticism

Academic critics of anti-Zionism said that many antisemites passed off their prejudice as anti-Zionism, often in the form of biased criticism or rejection of the right of Israel to exist as a haven for Jews facing mistreatment elsewhere.[12]

Walter Laqueur, a German-American historian,[13] also pointed out a similar issue with the anti-Zionists:[14]

In the light of history, the argument that anti-Zionism is different from antisemitism is not very convincing. No one disputes that in the late Stalinist period anti-Zionism was merely a synonym for antisemitism. [...] in the Muslim [...] Arab world, the fine distinctions between Jews and Zionists hardly ever existed.

Anti-Zionism Media

  • The August 1917 memorandum by Edwin Montagu, the only Jew then in a senior British government position,[15] stating his opposition to the pro-Zionist Balfour Declaration, which he described as "antisemitic in result"[16]

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    Arab mayor of Jerusalem Yousef al-Khalidi who in 1899 wrote a letter to Theodor Herzl arguing against Zionism. "... in the name of God," he wrote, "let Palestine be left alone."

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    The vignette in the Falastin newspaper suggests Zionist insincerity is protected by British complicity, with Zionism as a crocodile under the protection of a British officer telling Palestinian Arabs: "don't be afraid!!! I will swallow you peacefully...".[17]

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    Wilson and his cabinet in 1916

  • Opvolger van Pieck, Walter Ulbricht, Bestanddeelnr 911-5926 (cropped).jpg

    East German chairman Walter Ulbricht, 1960

  • Protestors Holding Pro Palestine Posters.jpg

    Arab women protestors holding pro-Palestinian signs in front of the Israeli embassy in Amman, 2021

  • روز جهانی قدس در شهر قم- Quds Day In Iran-Qom City 14.jpg

    Quds Day demonstration in Qom, Iran

  • 2017.03.26 Anti-Israel Protest, Washington, DC USA 01929 (33670862035).jpg

    Pro-Palestinian protest with placards demanding the US to stop funding of "Israeli apartheid" in Washington, DC, 2017

  • Judaism condemns Israel's atrocities -6 (52032176719).jpg

    Members of Neturei Karta holding Palestinian flags and placards saying that "Judaism condemns the state of Israel and its atrocities" in London, 2022

Related pages

References

  1. ↑ Caplan, Neil (2015-05-22). Palestine Jewry and the Arab Question, 1917-1925 (RLE Israel and Palestine). Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-44282-0.
  2. ↑ A modified variant of the medieval European antisemitic slur Jewish pigs, later popularized by Martin Luther in the 16th century.
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  6. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named IHRA.
  7. ↑ Rutland, Suzanne (2024-03-27). "When does anti-Zionism become antisemitism? A Jewish historian's perspective". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-08-12.
  8. ↑ "Kuwaiti newspaper apologies for using 'Israel'". The New Arab. 16 January 2021. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  9. ↑ "Israel's Occupation: 50 Years of Dispossession". Amnesty International. 7 June 2017.
  10. ↑ Rose, Sunniva (6 May 2019). "Shebaa farms: why Hezbollah uses Israel's occupation of a tiny strip of land to justify its arsenal". The National. Archived from the original on 2024-02-21. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  11. ↑ "Gaza Strip: A beginner's guide to an enclave under blockade". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 3 February 2024.
  12. ↑
  13. ↑ Siegel, Fred (October 3, 2018). "Setting My Compass by Walter Laqueur, 1921-2018". Tablet Magazine. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/setting-my-compass-by-walter-laqueur-1921-2018. Retrieved October 23, 2024. "Walter Laqueur wrote with the range of a journalist and the depth of a historian. He helped set my intellectual compass.

    Laqueur was born in Germany but escaped to Israel in 1939, leaving behind parents who perished in the Holocaust. While working the land, a fellow kibbutznik taught him Russian and by the mid-1960s he was writing books on the Soviets and the Middle East.".     
  14. ↑ Laqueur, Walter (2006). "The New Antisemitism". The Changing Face of Antisemitism: From Ancient Times to the Present Day. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195341218. Retrieved October 23, 2024.
  15. ↑ Schneer 2010, p. 193.
  16. ↑ Klug 2004.
  17. ↑ Sufian 2008, p. 31.
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