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Elements of Anti-Semitism — Parapraxis

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Zionism is an antisemitism. What do we mean by this? The Zionist has no particular disposition towards Jews qua Jews—if they are nationalists, they are embraced; if they are not, they are despised. Or further: if a Jew declares “I am not a Zionist,” the Zionist retorts, “then you are not a Jew.” Zionists demand absolute devotion to the national project, and, like the Christian supersessionists before them, attempt to replace Judaism as a religion, degrading it into yet another vulgar nationalism premised on a constructed racial identity. But even on these terms, “racial belonging” is not sufficient for the Zionist to consider someone a Jew. It is clear that the Zionist considers anti-Zionist Jews to be their enemy—over and above all others except the Palestinian, the former representing a fifth column in the war of extermination against the latter. Anti-Zionist Jews are regularly subjected to Zionist vitriol, which targets them specifically as Jews—“Kapo,” “self-hating Jew,” “Nazi,” “r

Elements of Anti-Semitism From the River to the Sea Palestine Issue Jul 21 Written By Jake Romm The limits of Zionism Jake Romm Zionism is an antisemitism. What do we mean by this? The Zionist has no particular disposition towards Jews qua Jews—if they are nationalists, they are embraced; if they are not, they are despised. Or further: if a Jew declares “I am not a Zionist,” the Zionist retorts, “then you are not a Jew.” Zionists demand absolute devotion to the national project, and, like the Christian supersessionists before them, attempt to replace Judaism as a religion, degrading it into ye

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