Fast forward to December 2025. On the eve of Hanukkah, Jews were murdered in Sydney in an act of naked antisemitic violence. Yet the perpetrators justified their actions by invoking “Zionists.” Since Oct. 7, Jews far from the Middle East have increasingly been treated as stand-ins for Israel and held collectively responsible for its alleged crimes. Antisemitism persists, but it now frequently presents itself as something else. How did a movement once envisioned as the solution to Jew-hatred become its alleged cause?
If we want to understand why Jews are being murdered in the name of “anti-Zionism,” we must be precise about what anti-Zionism is, where it comes from, and, just as importantly, where it does not.
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