Anti-Zionism Is Deadlier Than Antisemitism

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16. This is from a Jewish point of view. When it was country clubs, housing (Gentleman's Agreement)

even jobs and universities it was somewhat tolerable with hopes for changes as it was happening with women and minorities.

But, as the next paragraphs state:

But since the birth of Israel, and its baptism by fire when the Arab states and local Arabs tried to destroy it, anti-Zionism can only mean the destruction of Israel, which is home to some seven million Jews as well as two million Arabs and other minorities.

Some, willfully ignoring all relevant experience, say the Jews wouldn’t have to go anywhere if Israel ceased to be a state. The Jews could live on harmoniously amid the new Arab majority that would pour into “Palestine from the river to the sea.” But the Jews, once numerous throughout the region, were driven from every Arab country by their Muslim compatriots. The Palestinian Arabs, who harbor bitter grievances that none of those other Arab peoples even claimed, wouldn’t treat the Jews under their rule with greater tolerance. We saw the spirit of many of them on Oct. 7.

Another thought is that fleeing Israelis could settle in America or Europe. Eighty years ago, Jews attempting to escape the Holocaust found these doors sealed, and we have no evidence they would fare better today. Immigration is controversial in America, where we admit about one million people legally and give asylum to tens of thousands each year, while others sneak in. There’s little chance the U.S. would let in all at once seven million Jewish Israelis and have them jump the line ahead of the waiting Latin Americans, Africans and Asians.

There is no escaping the reality that the end of Israel could only mean the death of millions of its Jews. The fulfillment of anti-Zionism means nothing less than a second Holocaust.