Anti-zionism and anti-semetism: is there a difference?

We need to sort this out for clarity in discussion and debate.

Even anti-semitism is a foggy term. We all have issues with bad actors and need to weed them out.

Bad actors are evil. They use human shields to hide behind.

So, give us your best shot at sorting this out.

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BohemianBabe · M

It is a little foggy because both of these words have changed throughout history. Zionism used to just be the belief that the Jews should have an ethnostate. Eventually it became a form of Jewish Supremacy, where the ethnostate must also be an apartheid society. Zionist philosophy evolved in Nazi Germany and absorbed a lot of elements from Nazism.

To be anti-zionist today is to oppose Israel as an apartheid society.

Semitic is really a language group, so it used to be that anyone who spoke a semitic language was a Semite. It's still that way in academic circles, historians and linguists will talk about the Semites as the people who later broke into other groups, like the Arabs, Hebrews, Assyrians, and such.

But today, anti-semitism really just refers to hatred of the Jews on a racial level, as opposed to a cultural level. And it doesn't refer to hatred of the Arabs, even though Arabic is also a semitic language.

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sree251 · 41-45, M

@BohemianBabe

But today, anti-semitism really just refers to hatred of the Jews on a racial level, as opposed to a cultural level. And it doesn't refer to hatred of the Arabs, even though Arabic is also a semitic language.

Anti-semetism today and anyday refers to haters of supremacists of a particular kind. It is this particular kind of supremacists that use "anti-semitism" as a targeting device for justifying the killing of anyone who stands in their way.

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@laotzu92

The only certain thing is that Nazi germany was intent on wiping out Jews to the degree they could.

Over 150,000 Jews fought in the Nazi military against the Allies. And the Nazis protected German Jews by putting them in camps with special uniforms and tattoos for easy identification.

America didn't want to take Jews as refugees because America considered them to be spies for Nazi Germany.

If the Nazis were intent on exterminating the Jews why were there so many survivors, lots who are still living today?

BohemianBabe · M

@laotzu92

Israels is NOT an apartheid society. Non Jews are citizens and have voting rights.

Absolutely not. In the West Bank, the Palestinians don't have the rights that the Jews have. The government even steals houses and land from Palestinians and gives them to Jews. Palestinians who live in Gaza or the West Bank aren't allowed to vote.