SEATTLE --- The Israel lobby’s flavor du jour in the battle to uphold Israeli triumphalism is the notion that anti-Zionism (which seems to be everywhere!) is anti-Semitism. The notion is sweeping university campuses from the United States and Canada to the United Kingdom. It’s even taken hold in the State Department. On March 16, Ira
Obama Administration Anti-Semitism Czar Defines Anti-Zionism As Jew Hatred
Anti-Zionism, far from being a religious canard, advocates the transformation of Israel into a single unitary state in which both Jewish and Palestinian citizens will hold equal political rights. It is not the same as anti-Semitism, and conflating the two issues has dangerous consequences.