Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?

Is Anti-Zionism Anti-Semitism?
(Wolfgang Kumm/dpa via AP)

Since 2015, Jonathan Greenblatt has served as the director of the Anti-Defamation League, an organization devoted to chronicling and fighting anti-Semitism in American society. Amid a rise in anti-Semitic incidents documented by his group, and with hate crimes in general on the upswing, Greenblatt, a former special assistant to Barack Obama, has been speaking harshly about the tendencies he believes exacerbate anti-Semitism. One of those tendencies is anti-Zionism, which, in a recent speech, he referred to as "an ideology rooted in rage," comparing it to white supremacy, and adding, "Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism." This comes at a time when a vocal minority of young American Jews has called for one secular, democratic state across Israel and the Palestinian territories.

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