My piece in today's Wall Street Journal argues that the genocide libel against Israel reflects antizionist ideology. Every academic promoting the accusation relies on the assumption that Israelis are foreign colonizers. The same inversion was used to justify the Rwandan Genocide.
Fighting antizionism is the civil rights movement of our time.
Antizionism is a racist and genocidal hate movement.
Learn about the October 7 genocide—and how genocide inversion has been used as incitement under international law.
adamlouisklein.bsky.social@adamlouisklein.bsky.social · 3mo ago
I always look forward to Jonah's podcast - Being Jewish with Jonah Platt - today's episode is with bluesky mutual Adam Louis Klein. Please give this a look and listen! @adamlouisklein.bsky.social youtu.be/nsI0EjX7zG0?...
Does Antizionism = Antisemitism? The Definitive Answer From MAAZ Founder Adam Louis-Klein
YouTube video by Being Jewish with Jonah Platt
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Antizionism is simply inverse race science: from the antisemitic imaginary of the Jew as non-white infiltrator, to the antizionist imaginary of the Israeli as white colonizer.
The antizionist construction of Jews as "white colonizers" is a form of RACISM.
antizionism comes from the Nazi-Islamist axis, Soviet antizionist propaganda, and Western settler-colonial theory. It does NOT come from pre-1948 Jewish anti-Zionism
And antizionist involves Western antizionist institutions and organizations — postcolonial academia, the liberal academy, and activist coalitions — who transform antizionism into romanticized moral virtue.
Antizionism relies on genocidal antizionist regimes, such as Qatar, Iran, and increasingly, Turkey, who mobilize information warfare to normalize antizionist ideology and violence throughout the world.
Antizionism is a global, transnational structure. It is not reducible to Hamas. It involves multiple genocidal antizionist militias, Houthis, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, etc. who colonize whole regions and submit their populations to their endless war machine.
On October 7th, antizionist militias committed genocide.
Antijudaic polemics against the “chosen people,” Lutheran notions of Jewish “racial arrogance,” and Pauline oppositions between “spirit” and “flesh” were reframed in secular political language as the claim that “Zionism is racism.”
The Soviet and Arab nationalist construction of antizionism evolved along two intersecting lines, one deriving from Christian antijudaism—often via the input of Levantine Arab-Christian intellectuals e.g. Fayez Sayegh, Constantine Zureiq, Michel Afleq and others, the other from Soviet antizionism.
The denial tactic that has become so deeply familiar today — "I'm not antisemitic; I'm just antizionist" — ends the day we decide that being antizionist is also wrong.
antizionism is based on three core libels—colonizer, apartheid, genocide—that code a "Jewish majority state" as inherently evil. antizionism is a specific hate movement against Israel, based on libel, projection, discrimination, and violence.
antizionism is a racist hate movement
