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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t need to read 28 pages of back and forth.  Because the following are true:

1) You do not have to be Jewish to be a Zionist
2) Not all Jews are Zionists
3) Zionism is a political theory not a religion
4) Israel has many non-Zionist Jews within Israel and their own government (are these Jews antisemetic?) 
5) Equating Zionism with Judaism (and anti Zionism with antisemitism) erases the diversity of Jewish opinion, silences legitimate political criticism and weaponizes Jewish identity, shutting down debate and ironically promoting antisemitism by making it harder to distinguish between prejudice and protest.

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1) True 
2) True but 90% or so of them are
3) Zionism is the belief that the state of Israel should exist, and Israel is where half the world’s Jews live, so it’s impossible to completely bifurcate Zionism and religion.
4) No, those Jews are probably not antisemitic. That doesn’t mean antizionists are never antisemitic though. 
5) Literally NOBODY, even the most ardent zionists I know, claim that criticism of the Israeli government is antisemitic on its own. But some criticism of Israel is indeed motivated by antisemitism. And the venn diagram between antizionism (the belief that the state of Israel should be dismantled) and antisemitism is almost a perfect circle.  [/quote]

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