Antizionism represents a new, fully developed ideological system that recasts Jews not as religious deviants or racial inferiors, as in past eras, but as racist oppressors, imperialists, and colonizers. In the antisemitism era, Jews were portrayed as racially impure globalists. Critically, that is not how Jew-hatred expresses itself today. While classical antisemitism still exists, society has built a healthy immune system that rejects overt depictions of Jews as biologically inferior. 

Today’s challenge looks different: Israel, Zionism, and Jews are labeled “colonizers,” “racists,” “apartheid,” and even “Nazis.” Because these terms belong to the language of modern political discourse, many in the Jewish community mistakenly assume that calling Israel or Zionists “colonialists” is political criticism. It is not. It is a libel, a deliberately crafted accusation designed to demonize Jews and the Jewish state.

To understand why this libel works, and why it feels familiar, we must widen the frame and ask, what if the recurring appearance of Jew-hatred—anti-Judaism, antisemitism, and antizionism—is meant to reset our moral compass? Antizionism is not the disease but a symptom, revealing more about the surrounding culture than about Jews themselves. Across all three eras, the Jew is constructed as the ultimate villain of the age, but the form of that villain mutates. In the era of anti-Judaism, Jews were framed as violators of Christianity; in the antisemitism era, as contaminants of a racial ideal; and today, in a moral landscape shaped by decolonization and human rights discourse, as the violators of the sacred modern figure of “the oppressed,” imagined as the indigenous.

Our goal at Stop Antizionism is to expose antizionism as a danger not only to Jews but to civilization itself. History teaches us that what a society considers “moral” in one era can be revealed as profoundly immoral in the next. It is difficult to imagine today, but during the era of racial antisemitism, classifying people by physical features and assigning value based on “racial purity” was seen as progressive and ethical. Antisemitism was catastrophic for Jews and ultimately for Europe. Only after the Holocaust did the world recognize the moral bankruptcy of that framework and reject it.

Stop Antizionism insists that we remain alert to similar distortions today, warning that the moral language of our moment can be corrupted and weaponized, and urging the community to confront these frameworks before they produce further harm.

Antizionism It borrows the vocabulary from post-colonial theory decolonization, Critical Race Theory, and human rights to construct Israel and Zionism as perpetrators of the worst imaginable crimes: genocide, apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and colonialism.

This is not a “misunderstanding” to be corrected with more information. It is a demonization, a narrative that needs a villain. Facts alone do not dismantle libels.

When Jew-hatred surfaces, it exposes a society’s moral decay and forces a critical realignment to confront and expel this ideological toxin. Like anti-Judaism and antisemitism, Antizionism, the latest form of Jew-hatred, reorders categories of good and evil, oppressor and oppressed, and seeks to normalize hostility toward Jews and the Jewish state as a moral duty. As such, our goal in confronting antizionism is to expose dangerous ideologies and social movements that come from the radical left and the Red-Green alliance.