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Your denial of the Jewishness of all those people who are Jews and are against Zionism or simply do not agree that Zionism represents them, is the true antisemitism here.
It's not up to you and it's not up to Zionists to decide that Zionism represents all Jews, it's up to all Jews and a lot of them think Zionism doesn't represent them, hence "Zionism" is not at all equivalent to "Jew" and hence anti-Zionism is not at all equivalent to antisemitic.
The previous poster's metaphor is spot on illustrating your inherent anti-semitism in how you defend your beloved flavour of ethno-Fascist political ideology: Zionists claim that they represent an entire ethnicity - even against statements of members of that ethnicity that they do not - and then claim that criticism of Zionism is actually an attack on the ethnicity, going so far as explicitly calling actual Jews who are critical of Zionism "anti-semites", all of which is exactly as the Nazis did using "the Arian Race" (including the detail of accusing members of the Arian Race of being "against the Arian Race" or "not real Arians" when they voiced opinions critical of Nazism) which is why the previous poster's metaphor was perfect - how you and your ideological brothers position yourselves in relation to the Jewish People and use that self-proclaimed relation in your "arguments" is straight out of a Himmler manual on Propaganda.
You're the only Racist in this room and by making arguments in the same style as Nazi Propaganda you out yourself as a rabid, Nazi-style kind of Racist.
If you’re actually interested in the history of Zionism, opposition to it, anti-Zionism, and different Zionist schools of thought. This is a good introduction.
The Anti-Zionism of today isn’t represented by Bundism.
I didn’t do that. I only pointed out, that there’s a noticeable group of antizionists in the US, who only use their Jewish ancestry as a weapon against Israel, but are otherwise disconnected from the Jewish culture. Falls in the same category for Americans though to claim they’re Italian because their great-grandma was Italian, but they don’t speak the language, follow customs, or have even been to Italy. The question of who is a Jew is a very long one.
Naturei Karta and similar religious nutcases are of course Jews. I pointed out two two fringe groups that are used as tokens by antisemites in an attempt to cover their hate.
The Verband nationaldeutscher Juden was a Jewish organization that supported the original Nazis. Do you object to them being antisemitic?
The Jewish people are notorious for arguing and you can find someone espousing all kinds of outlandish ideas.
My argument was the vast majority of Jews support the existence of Israel as a state and safe place for the Jewish people.
It isn’t always, but typically. Only hating 90% of Jews, except the good ones, still is antisemitic.
If you’re against the existence of all nation states, then of course being anti-Zionist isn’t antisemitic. As soon as you wave a Palestinian nationalist flag, this doesn’t apply anymore obviously.
There are also anti-Zionists, objectively to Israel being a secular state with an Arab Muslim and other minorities. They want a theocratic monarchy, so a far more extreme goal. The tokens from Naturei Karta and such fall into this category.
Anti-Zionism means being opposed to the existence of Israel. Israel is home to half of the worlds Jews, most of whose ancestors arrived as refugees from persecution. Destruction of the state of Israel means persecution, exodus, death, flight, and death for the Jewish people. That is antisemitism in practice.
You don’t know enough about national socialism.
If you want to go back to that time, consider that it was the Zionist Jews who escaped and survived the Holocaust.
Your whole equivalence of Nazism to Zionism is pure antisemitism an vile.