Yes, anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism

[aranthus]

254. That depends on where they are coming from.

There are religious anti-Zionists who I would not necessarily consider antisemitic. True Torah Jews and Neturei Karta, but as I have pointed out above, their arguments only work if you are a member of those groups, so they are irrelevant to any argument about whether anti-Zionism is antisemitic. The other group of anti-Zionist Jews are Leftists. Their anti-Zionism comes from their Leftist beliefs and not their Jewishness, so their ideas are as much subject to the charge of antisemitism as anyones. And as Shira has pointed out, people who associate with or support violently antisemitic groups are antisemitic. What matters is what they think and write and say, not who their parents were.

And just exactly what do your "anti-Zionist" friends believe? Do they believe that the Jews are not a people entitled to a state at all? If so then they are truly anti-Zionist, and also antisemitic Jews. Otherwise, they probably aren't. Do they believe that the Palestinians should have a state? Not anti-Zionist. That all the Settlements have to be moved so that the Palestinians can have all of the West Bank for their state? Not anti-Zionist. That Netanyahu is an ass? Way not anti-Zionist. Anti-Zionist means that they think that the Jewish people are not an ethnic group, but are merely members of a religion, and that therefore, they don't have a right to a state of their own. To be anti-Zionist you have to be against the existence and national rights of the Jewish people. That's why being anti-Zionist is per se antisemitic.