With that being said, conflating antisemitism with antizionism is antisemitic in itself
Criticism and protests aimed at Israel are not antisemitic. Claiming the opposite means that you associate all jewish life with Israel, which again, might be a zionist standpoint, but is antisemitic.
One can very well protest against Israel’s actions and call for a ceasefire. That is not antisemitic.
One can also protest against Israel’s right to exist in its current form. Many jewish scholars have been calling for a one state solution in which all people “from the river to the sea” would exist as equals. That would indeed mean an end to Israel as it exists today since a new form of government and territorial administration would be needed for that to happen. That is again, not antisemitic. It might be antiozionist, but it isn’t antisemitic. It is not calling for the expulsion of jewish people. It is not calling for massacres.
Antisemitism is:
calling for the extermination, expulsion, or ethnic cleansing of all jewish life (from Israel or from abroad)
associating jewish people with different conspiracy theories (controlling the world, Soros, money, etc.), which funnily enough many prominent Israel supporters do (Victor Orban of Hungary is a great example)
conflating jewish life with Israel (this stems from the old theory used by the nazis that jewish people somehow have a hidden allegiance to another country/entity and not that of their own, thus labeling them as foreign agents)
Antisemitism is a real problem.
With that being said, conflating antisemitism with antizionism is antisemitic in itself
Criticism and protests aimed at Israel are not antisemitic. Claiming the opposite means that you associate all jewish life with Israel, which again, might be a zionist standpoint, but is antisemitic.
One can very well protest against Israel’s actions and call for a ceasefire. That is not antisemitic.
One can also protest against Israel’s right to exist in its current form. Many jewish scholars have been calling for a one state solution in which all people “from the river to the sea” would exist as equals. That would indeed mean an end to Israel as it exists today since a new form of government and territorial administration would be needed for that to happen. That is again, not antisemitic. It might be antiozionist, but it isn’t antisemitic. It is not calling for the expulsion of jewish people. It is not calling for massacres.
Antisemitism is: