“Is antiZionism related to antisemitism?” AntiZionism is the thin coat of shellac that Jew-haters use to pretend they're not antisemitic. Everybody sees through it. The only people who pretend that there's a difference are the antisemites. AntiZionism is to antisemitism as a square is to a rectangle. Not all rectangles fit the definition of squares, but all squares are rectangles. The United Nations gave legal existence to the state of Israel, and Israel then fought for and won the right to exist as the homeland of the Jewish people. Antisemites try to prove that not all Jews are descended from ancient Israelites, but it's a stupid argument. The Jewish people decide who counts as a Jew. Nobody else has a say in the matter. Jew-hating bigots who wish for the genocide of Jews accuse Israel of genocide. People who want to ghettoize Jews call Israel an apartheid state. BOTH charges are slanderous lies, antisemites accusing Israel of their own sins and desires. NonJews in Israel are freer and more prosperous than Muslims in any Muslim nation. Israel has never started a war with anybody, but they have fought preemptively to defeat nations and organizations that have committed acts of war and declared war against them. If Israel's neighbors had accepted the UN boundaries instead of attempting to slaughter Jews and wipe Israel off the map, there is no rational indication that Israel would not have remained within those borders. Jewish immigrants to Israel bought all the land they lived, farmed, or manufactured on — none of the land was stolen. Palestine was an impoverished backwater of the Ottoman Empire until Jewish settlers, farming with rifles strapped to their backs, subdued the bandits that had long terrorized the inhabitants of Canaan. Only when Canaan had been pacified and economically stimulated by Jewish immigrants did Palestine become a desirable place to live. Then Arabs immigrated to Palestine precisely because of what Jews had made of the place. Because newly arrived Jews were prosperous where Arabs had failed to thrive, they were resented … but if all Jews had been driven out then, there is no reason to believe that “Palestine” would not have immediately reverted to the lawless, feckless, impoverished, unproductive region it had been before. Whatever Canaan might have been when Moses arrived millennia ago (a land of “milk and honey”), it was an anarchic desert when the Zionists arrived to make it a fit homeland for the stateless Jews scattered through the world. Let no one be fooled by the lies of the Jew-hating antiZionists. They are murderous Hitlers and Himmlers in their hearts. They are all abetters of the monstrous crimes of October 7.