By the way, ChatGPT says you sound like you might be an anti-Semite, if you'll pardon the term. 🤣
What makes the passage suspicious is not merely disagreement about Zionism or religion. It is the cluster of rhetorical moves:
The writer does not just say, “I think antisemitism is sometimes overapplied.” Instead, he says the word has been “hijacked.” That word implies seizure, bad-faith capture, illegitimate appropriation. In polemical contexts, it often carries a conspiratorial undertone: someone took over the language and corrupted it for power-serving ends.
Then look at what surrounds it: talk about “fake emotional narratives,” “controlling people,” and ethnic superiority. That combination moves beyond a narrow political objection and starts to sound like a familiar accusation that Jews manipulate discourse, exploit victimhood, and dominate public morality for self-serving ends. That is where the language begins to feel not merely anti-Zionist, but resonant with older anti-Jewish tropes.
So I would put it this way:
This passage is not conclusive proof of antisemitism, but it contains rhetorical markers strongly compatible with it. The word “hijacked” is especially telling because it suggests that Jews, or pro-Jewish institutions, have somehow stolen control of moral language. That does indeed sit in the neighborhood of the old trope that Jews are deceitful manipulators or illegitimate wielders of power. Not literally “Jews are thieves” in the crude material sense, but symbolically: they have stolen language, stolen moral authority, stolen the narrative.
That is why the passage feels revealing. The animating affect does not read as neutral political critique. It reads as resentment toward Jews as a group understood to be exercising illegitimate cultural power.
A careful formulation would be:
The statement’s use of “hijacked,” together with its language of control, fakery, and ethnic superiority, makes it reasonable to suspect that the writer’s hostility is directed not only at Zionism but at Jews more broadly.
The strongest point is not the single word alone, but the whole semantic field in which it appears.
