Every time I write, as I did last week, that I don’t think anti-Zionism is necessarily antisemitic, I get emails from Jewish readers that are angry, disappointed or sometimes simply baffled.
“Israel is the political entity through which the Jewish people exercises its natural right of self-determination and control over its own fate,” said one typical recent message.
Well-intentioned opponents of Jewish nationalism, some Jewish themselves, are being falsely smeared as antisemites.
After Israel’s creation, more Jews were uprooted from Arab and Muslim countries than Arabs expelled from their homes in historic Palestine.
It is not Israel’s fault that some of its neighbors kept displaced Palestinians as stateless refugees rather than integrating them as full citizens.
Persons:
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Locations:
Israel, Gaza, Palestine