Yes, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism

[Ken Burch]

82. In practice it isn't necessarily either. And it serves no purpose to demonize non-Zionists.

An antizionist or nonzionists can also be a person who simply doesn't take Israel's side in the dispute, without necessarily wanting Israel to be wiped out.

And in any case, this issue won't be decided by activists who want Israel replaced by a democratic non-sectarian state, so why spend so much time attacking them?

Why not find a positive way of responding to them...by actually calling on the Israeli government to stop doing the things to Palestinians that drive some people to wash their hands of the state out of despair that that state will ever even try to end the war, or will ever make any serious effort to help a Palestinian state come into being?

Most of the antizionists I know didn't get that way out of malice...the came to the conclusion that the state you make such a show of unquestioningly defending on all security issues simply wasn't ever going to see reason and accept that the crisis is based on the legitimate grievances of Palestinians, rather than prejudice. You could be one of the people that pushes the Israeli government to make the kind of changes that would re-engage these people and help create a positive solution, rather than simply temporarily preserve an ugly, unust, and untenable status quo for a few more miserable years. There's nothing in the way things are now that's worth keeping in place, shira-there's nothing in the way things are now that's actually good FOR Israelis. Why defend what you know is futile? Why not work for something better, rather than just cyber-screaming invective at people of good will who simply disagree with you?

There's no way that keeping the settlements could possibly be MORE important than peace. What matters is knowing that nobody's kids will be having to put on uniforms anymore, not where those kids are going to live.