r/IsraelWarRoom

Antizionism is just criticism of Israel. Totally. Obviously.

Also, Jews are not really a people — just a religion, except when they’re a race, except when they’re white, except when they’re white-adjacent, except when they’re useful as proof that antizionism cannot possibly be antisemitic.

Also, Israel is uniquely illegitimate. Not flawed. Not criticizable. Illegitimate. That's why we call it “settler-colonial,” despite the awkward lack of a mother country, empire, or resource extraction. Jews returned to Judea, which is colonialism because we said so.

Also, we need to update Jewish history... which is totally normal to do when you are just criticizing a group of people. So... Jews may have been indigenous yesterday, but today they are colonizers. Holocaust survivors may have been murdered for not being white, but today their descendants are white oppressors. Jews expelled from Iraq, Yemen, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Iran, Morocco, and elsewhere may have arrived as refugees, but today they are settlers. Very simple.

Also, it is a totally normal criticism to call Zionists supremacists. And this is important to do. It makes everything that follows sound moral.

And don't forget to call them genocidal. And to repeat “genocide” until it stops describing a crime and starts describing a people. Hamas? Irrelevant. Human shields? Hasbara. Rockets? What rockets? Hostages? Changing the subject.

Once “Zionist” means white-colonial-apartheid-genocidal-supremacist, excluding Zionists from campuses, workplaces, panels, co-ops, bookstores, unions, medical associations, and cultural life becomes justice.

It's also completely normal not to mention any inconvenient "facts": Mizrahi Jews, Sephardi Jews, Ethiopian Jews, Holocaust survivors, Arab citizens of Israel, Druze Israelis, Bedouin Israelis, peace treaties, repeated rejected partition plans, Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, October 7, suicide bombings, rockets, tunnels, hostage-taking, or the fact that “Zionist” usually means most Jews.

And absolutely do not compare how minorities are treated across the Middle East and North Africa — where Kurds, Copts, Yazidis, Baháʼís, Amazigh, Assyrians, and others enjoy such famously robust protections, equal rights, and zero persecution that it would be terribly unfair to bring them up.

Also don’t ask what happens to the seven million Jews already living there. That question is rude. Just say “decolonization” and let everyone fill in the blanks.

And when people start shouting outside synagogues, vandalizing Jewish institutions, harassing Israeli athletes, boycotting Jewish-linked businesses, threatening Jewish students, demanding loyalty tests, or trying to purge “Zionists” from public life, act shocked.

Because antizionism is definitely not a hate movement. Don't be ridiculous.

“Right this moment, across the Gaza Strip, Hamas’s police, intelligence units, and al‑Qassam Brigade militias are fully deployed to crush the June 26 protests planned by civilians who want to voice their opposition to the group’s authoritarian, fascistic rule. In a new escalation, armed operatives from the Iranian‑funded Palestinian Islamic Jihad have joined Hamas, positioning fighters across Gaza to rapidly arrest, shoot, or disperse any gathering that could turn into a demonstration. Even more alarming, a national security source tells me that four days ago, communications were intercepted from Lebanon and the Islamic Republic of Iran advising Hamas on how to deter Gaza’s population and how to confront protesters with a “low visible footprint” once demonstrations begin.

Hamas has also unleashed hundreds of fake “journalists,” tribal figures, social‑media “influencers,” humanitarian “activists,” and other regime‑aligned voices to denounce the June 26 protests as “suspicious” and “Israeli-backed.” Given the scale of this state‑sanctioned terror apparatus, it would be surprising if large numbers of Gazans manage to demonstrate as originally envisioned. Yet a handful of activists with almost no resources have already rattled Hamas’s entire security infrastructure, and the broader “Axis of Resistance” so loudly celebrated by many in the Western “pro‑Palestine” movement. That alone exposes just how many supposed allies of the Palestinian people are, in truth, nowhere to be found when Gazans stand up to their actual oppressors.”