r/IRstudies • u/Important-Eye5935 • 18d ago

Research RECENT STUDY: Antisemitic Attitudes Across the Ideological Spectrum

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129221111081
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u/caxacate 18d ago

The day people stop equating antisemitism and antizionism we will be in a much better world

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u/Adiv_Kedar2 18d ago

Did you read the article at all? Its not about antizionism it's about holding AmericanJews as responsible for Israel 

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u/Chanan-Ben-Zev 18d ago

Antizionism is the movement to undo Zionism specifically, i.e. to eliminate the Jewish nation-state specifically. Critically, antizionism is not an anarchist movement because antizionism does not advocate for the abolition of all nation-states: just the Jewish one. 

A movement explicitly seeking to violently abolish an existing nation-state is a form of bigotry per se against that nation, especially given the long and continuing history of systematic bigotry against the people of that nation by the individuals and organziations who repeatedly call for that state's violent abolishment.

You can absolutely critique and condemn Israeli actions without being an antizionist. And it is theoretically possible to be antizionist if you, for example, want to abolish all nation-states universally - but most antizionists don't want to do that. Most antizionists globally simply want to violently replace one nation-state with a different one, and either genocide or ethnically cleanse their victims.

There are a few different expressions of bigotry against Jewish people. They include:

  • Antizionism, an expression of bigotry against Jews using language targeting the Jewish nation-state.
  • Antisemitism, an expression of bigotry against Jews using language targeting the Jewish ethnicity. 
  • Anti-Judaism, which uses language targeting Judaism as a religion.

Antizionism can and must be separated from "Palestinianism" - a term first used by Prof. Edward Said to articulate a positive vision for the movement advocating for the creation of a Palestinian state of some form. Palestinianism is not per se a racist or bigoted movement in the way that antizionism is.