Antizionist hate rally for lost teens and has-beens
'The most important difference between antisemitism and antizionism, as it is with all forms of bigotry, is permission.'
When Grace Tame led a crowd in chanting “globalise the intifada” at Town Hall, she sent a message that we can’t afford to miss.
Tame’s defenders were quick to insist that the chant was not antisemitic. She did not invoke Jewish ethnicity or spirituality.
Antizionists don’t need subscribe to classical antisemitism. Antisemites enjoyed the same distinction from their forebears, considering antijudaism distasteful and immoral.
While antizionism continues to be conflated with ‘political criticism’, it maintains social and institutional assent. The NSW government plans to criminalise the chant, but criminalisation and social permissibility are far from the same thing.
The most important difference between antisemitism and antizionism, as it is with all forms of bigotry, is permission.
comments