Anti-Zionism is not antisemitism.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/10/reprehensible-protestors-chant...
For example, 2/3 sample of Lebanese, Israel’s next door neighbors, answered probably true to “Jews are responsible for most of the world's wars”
Well he never argues that it necessarily does. You should be happy about that. You agree.
What's that saying leftists and antifascists loved until a few weeks ago? "if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis." Leftist protestors sure went from "punch a Nazi in the face" to "gas the jews" real quick.
I'm pretty sure the parent meant to say "Anti-zionism does not imply antisemitism".
Why is this relevant though? Saying "antizionism does not imply antisemitism" is relevant because a lot of people think it does. But no one thinks that "antisemitism implies antizionism".
To hope for the destruction of the state of Israel (anti-Zionism) is to hope to have Jews again be subject to unchecked savagery for the next 2,000 years. Even in Germany now it is scary to be openly Jewish, doing Jewish things, as the vice chancellor noted. It may technically be correct to say that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism, in terms of language structure and precise meaning of words, but anti-Zionism leads to anti-Jewish consequences.
The problem seems to be that Israel, the victim, has become the perpetrator.
My only reservation is that the line of where “criticism of Israel” jumps into “antisemetic rhetoric” seems to be defined by the listener rather than the speaker. How can one express a pro-Zionist, anti-Zionist action, pro-Palestinian autonomy, anti-Hamas action opinion without being called a hypocrite by someone somewhere? It’s not an insane position to hold, but listeners always want to define the speaker as supporting some kind of heinous past.