Al atardecer del 27 de octubre de 1967, en el 20 de Larchwood Drive, Cambridge (Gran Bretaña), Martin Luther King, Jr., ya advirtió:
“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism!
(Cuando la gente critica a los sionistas quieren decir judíos. ¡Eso es antisemitismo!)
Para quienes disputen la autenticidad de la cita, Martin Kramer ofrece precisa y contrastadamente todos los detalles de la misma en In the words of Martin Luther King... (2012) y Why Martin Luther King never visited Israel (2013).
En la Conferencia sobre Seguridad y Cooperación en Europa ,el primer Enviado Especial del Departamento de Estado de EEUU para controlar y combatir el antisemitismo, Gregg Rickman, se refirió a las nuevas adaptaciones del antisemitismo y expuso las íntimas conexiones entre antisionismo y antisemitismo:
"... han aparecido nuevas formas de antisemitismo. A menudo incorporan elementos del antisemitismo tradicional. Sin embargo, lo que distingue al nuevo antisemitismo es una crítica del sionismo o de la política israelí que - intencionalmente o sin querer - tiene el efecto de promover los prejuicios contra todos los judíos mediante la demonización de Israel y los israelíes y la atribución de las pretendidas faltas de Israel a su carácter judío."
El Primer Ministro turco Tariq Erdogan ha llevado a su máxima expresión el antisemitismo socapa de antisionismo; el 27 de febrero en Viena, en el foro de la Alianza de Civilizaciones (vídeo), se despacha a gusto, calificando el sionismo como “crimen contra la humanidad”, como el antisemitismo o la islamofobia.
En Competing visions of "Never Again" (May 2, 2011) (vídeo con una conferencia suya que lo desarrolla; la foto a la izquierda, con el cartel que dice "Dios Bendiga a Hitler", es de otra entrada de su blog), Caroline Glick explica brevemente la evolución del antisemitismo clásico a su actual expresión de apariencia meramente antisionista:
"There are two reasons that the human-rights paradigm has broken down. The first is because it failed to recognize the adaptability of Jew hatred. Anti-Semitism is one of the hardest hatreds to pin down because it is constantly updating itself to suit the political and social trends of the day. Since Nazi-style anti-Semitism went out of fashion with the defeat of Germany, the human-rights visionaries believed that people would be embarrassed into putting the hatred aside.
Instead, guided by the Soviets, Jew-haters worldwide simply updated their language.
They stopped talking about Jewish control over world affairs and began talking about Zionist control over world affairs.
Unlike the Europeans, Arab Jew-haters feel no social obligation to hide their antipathy for the Jews from their own societies. But recognizing where the West stands on the issue, they have added the post-war, socially acceptable form of anti-Semitism - anti-Zionism - to their repertoire. For instance, alongside its allegations about Jewish and Freemason conspiracies to take over the world, and its citations of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the Hamas charter also includes a paragraph devoted to Zionist apartheid, genocide, imperialism, and human-rights abuses.
When the Palestinians' Western sympathizers in the media, foreign service, academia, etc. report on Palestinian accusations against Israel, they eagerly credit as fact demonstrably false allegations by Palestinian spokesmen of Israeli human-rights abuses, genocide and apartheid. Tellingly though, those Westerners are silent when the same Palestinian officials they treat as respectable for alleging Zionist criminal conspiracies also engage in politically incorrect anti-Semitic attacks.
Their claims that Israelis poison their wells and infect their children with AIDS are left unremarked.
This Western cherry picking of Jewish conspiracy theories by politically savvy Western Jew-haters demonstrates the absurdity of the claim that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.
Like old-fashioned Jew-hatred, anti-Zionism inverts the reality of Jewish vulnerability and victimization in order to justify irrational hatred of Jews and deny basic rights of self-defense to Jewish victims.
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Anti-Semitism is not a curable disease.
Israel is the target of an anti-Semitic, genocidal political campaign that employs the language of human rights to justify itself . And otherwise moral men and women simply ignore evil when they believe their interests are best served by not standing up to it.
A secondary casualty of the failure of the human rights paradigm has been intra- Jewish relations. Faced with their preferred paradigm's failure and corruption at the hands of anti-Semites, many Jewish human-rights activists have opted to abandon their fellow Jews and Israel in order to maintain their allegiance to the corrupt, anti-Semitic human-rights model.
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Only those who deter aggressors are capable of attracting allies. No one will stand with a nation that will not stand up for itself.
Holocaust Remembrance Day, which we marked on Monday, is nestled between Pessah and Independence Day for a reason. In both ancient and modern times, the only way for Jews - or anyone else - to protect their freedom and their lives is by being capable of defending them, in their own land.
The pseudo human-rights campaign against Israel being carried out in the name of fashionable anti-Zionist anti-Semitism represents a complete vindication of the Zionist model. Zionism is the only way to ensure Jewish survival. It is the only way to ensure that in the face of growing threats, "Never Again" will mean never again."
A comienzos de 2015, un juez alemán de Essen, Gauri Sastry, condena a una persona por 'incitación contra una minoría', sosteniendo que:
“En el lenguaje de los antisemitas, ‘Sionista’ es el código para [referirse a] ‘judío'.”
The war against the Jews (Efraim Karsh, July 2012):
"In most instances, however, anti-Jewish prejudice and animosity, or anti-Semitism as it is commonly known, has served to exacerbate distrust and hatred of Israel. Indeed, the fact that the international coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the libels against Zionism and Israel, such as the despicable comparisons to Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa, have invariably reflected a degree of intensity and emotional involvement well beyond the normal level to be expected of impartial observers would seem to suggest that, rather than being a response to concrete Israeli activities, it is a manifestation of long-standing prejudice that has been brought out into the open by the vicissitudes of the conflict.
Of course, it has long been a staple of Israel bashers to argue that they have never had anything against Judaism or Jews but only against Zionism and Zionists, and that their criticisms are to be understood as an expression of frustration with Zionism, not with Jews or Judaism. Yet, for all their protestations to the contrary, opponents of Zionism and Israel have never really distinguished among Zionists, Israelis, and Jews, and often use these terms interchangeably."
En Why The Jews?, Dennis Prager y Joseph Telushkin señalan:
"La pretensión de que los antisionistas no son enemigos de los judíos, a pesar de apoyar políticas que llevarían a la muerte masiva de judías, es, dicho lo más generosamente posible, poco perspicaz. … Dado que, si el antisionismo lograra su objetivo, ocurriría otro holocausto judío, los intentos de distinguir entre antisionismo y antisemitismo solo pretenden confundir a los inocentes."
Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism: Cosmopolitan Reflections (David Hirsh, 2007) - Documento que pretende desenmarañar la difícil relación entre antisionismo y antisemitismo. Por un lado, el antisemtismo aparece como un urgente problema contemporáneo íntimamente conectado con una intensificación de la hostilidad hacia Israel. Desde la orilla opuesta, algunos disminuyen la relevancia de los hechos antisemitas y tienden a tratar las acusaciones de antisemitismo como intentos de deslegitimar las críticas a Israel. El documento, dice su autor, intenta analizar la relación existente entre ambas visiones, crítica y demonización de Israel, centrado en la esfera pública británica. Sociológicamente, dice el autor, busca desarrollar un marco cosmopolita para confrontar el nacionalismo metodológico tanto del sionismo como del antisionismo.
Plain and Simple: Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism (David Solway, Jan 6, 2012) - No hay diferencia alguna entre antisionismo y antisemitismo.
Engage- El antisemitismo contemporáneo casi siempre se muestra hablando de antisionismo.
En 2013, Hatzad Hasheni difunde este vídeo sobre el antisionismo como nueva versión del antisemitismo.
El 10 de diciembre de 2014 se celebró un debate en el Peers Institute for the Study of Antisemitism de la Birkbeck Universidad de Londres sobre Israel and Antisemitism in Britain: Now and in the Future (en el enlace se ofrecen enlaces a los podcasts de todos los intervinientes). En ese marco, la intervención de Eve Garrard: Anti-Judaism, Anti-Zionism, Antisemitism (texto)