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    Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling
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    Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling


    Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism, UK appeal tribunal confirms in landmark ruling

    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260804-anti-zionism-is-not-anti-semitism-uk-appeal-tribunal-confirms-in-landmark-ruling/

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    1. CrazyMelon112 on

      Brilliant common sense decision. There should be no worry of being labelled anti-Semitic if you fundamentally disagree with the state-sanctioned execution of Palestinians.

    2. ragged-bobyn-1972 on

      if anything this is a long term boon for the Jewish community, muddying the waters o the subject would have been a massive step in normalizing it.

    3. ServoSkull20 on

      Well, no. Being critical of Israel, and lumping other Jews in with them are two very different things. A shame so many people can’t see, or don’t care about that line.

    4. JustWhy1222 on

      This argument would be helped massively if the chosen definition of the word Zionist didn’t change multiple times a day, depending on who they are talking to.

    5. somethingdarkside45 on

      You can certainly be anti-zionist without being antisemitic.

      However there is *certainly* a growing number of people coding their language to appear anti-zionist to disguise real antisemitic sentiment.

    6. ApprehensiveKey1469 on

      Attempts by a foreign state and it’s bad actors within the UK to conflate antizionism with antisemitism has deservedly failed.

    8. GRang3r on

      Being critical of the actions of the Israeli government is in no way anti semitic. With the invention of smart phones and video sharing has shifted the narrative from official channels to social media. People are more free to come to their own conclusions

    9. Key-Room5690 on

      Given that no one can agree on the actual definition of Zionism these days we really should just drop the term. Instead, we need to be asking:
      – Do you support the continued existence of Israel and/or Palestine in general?
      – Do you condone the actions of the Israeli / Palestinian authorities wrt each other?

      I think we’d then find the vast majority of people occupy that moderate position of “two state solution and please stop killing each other”, which could be construed variously as pro- or anti-Zionist depending on who’s asking.

    10. Rmtcts on

      Seeing a lot of people assuming this helps to differentiate between anti-semetism and anti-zionism. It does the opposite, the person found to have protection for his beliefs said Jews do not experience discrimination, that they disproportionately hold positions of power in Europe, and they use that power to discriminate against other minorities. None of those are statements I would normally have associated with anti-zionism. 

    11. Striking_Smile6594 on

      Technically this is correct, of course it is not inherently antisemitic to criticise the government of Israel.

      Simultaneously though we should not pretend that many genuine antisemites do not use ‘antizionism’ as a shield and that lots of ‘antizionist’ rhetoric is not just barely disguised antisemitism.

    12. TheLimeyLemmon on

      Good. They are two very different things and it’s increasingly become an underhanded tactic by some to treat the two things as one and the same to shutdown criticism.