Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Harsanyi: Violent Attacks on American Jews Prove That "Anti-Zionism" is Antisemitism

Woketarians use roughly this same form of argument at almost every turn. E.g.: racists are against BLM; you are against BLM; therefore you are a racist.
   There does seem to be a lot over overlap between anti-Zionism and antisemitism--more overlap than, say, between racism and anti-BLMism. I suppose there's no real denying that there, at least often, seems to be quite a bit of overlap between anti-Zionism and antisemitism. But, as Hirsanyi notes, a lot of Jews are critical of Zionism, and of Israel. Of course a Woke-style response to this would be: That is the Jewish face of antisemitism...  But we are not Woketarians. And we can't stoop to their level.
   There's an obvious empirical question afoot: how much overlap is there?
   But it's clear enough that not every pro-Gaza protestor, and not every anti-Zionist is antisemitic.
   OTOH, it seems (to me, anyway) that quite a few are. 
   I tend to think that the former is more important...but that may be a philosophical quirk. 

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