Making this Royal Commission count
“Antizionism” reflects a shift from political debate to rhetoric that fuels hostility towards Israel.
The post-Holocaust West has mostly upheld an iron-clad mandate to denounce the racial vilification of Jews. Past acquiescence to antisemitism’s apparent moral, rational and fashionable allure haunts Europe’s footprints for all to see.
Despite consistent denouncement, vilification and violence towards Jews persists, seeing a marked increase in the aftermath of October 7.
But in the two years since, a new pair of glasses fashioned from the work of Naya Lekht, Andrew Pessin and Adam Louis-Klein have turned confusion into terrible clarity.
This new pair of glasses starts with some basic questions: What if calling out “antisemitism” doesn’t work? What if explaining “Zionism” is irrelevant? What happens when the words we use are warped beyond the scope of common ground?
We are now living in the antizionism era. This is a word that is easily defined, easily explained, and never to be confused with “anti-Zionism” – a political conversation that died in concentration camps, only to be exhumed as a propagandistic sledgehammer by antizionists.

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