Al Jazeera journalist Mehdi Hasan has boasted in a recent Twitter post about having "won" a debate in London hosted by Intelligence Squared.
The debate was about whether or not "anti-Zionism is antisemitism." Journalist Melanie Phillips and politician Einat Wilf spoke for the proposition, while Hasan and historian Ilan Pappé spoke against it.
Since the birth of Israel in 1948, critics have claimed they don't have a problem with Jews or Judaism, but with Zionism. By isolating Zionism, they think they're not being antisemitic and expect that this should automatically legitimize their opposition to the State of Israel. Worse yet, a substantial minority of actual Jews and Israelis encourage this approach.
