How to Use anti-Zionism in a Sentence
anti-Zionism
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Massie said his vote was due to the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
—Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
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Yet the public reckoning with anti-Zionism still awaits its moment.
—Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
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There has been much discussion over whether anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
—Diane Gensler, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2025
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There is constant debate about where the precise line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism falls.
—Emma Green, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
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Like Stalinism or the Khmer Rouge, anti-Zionism represents a wrong turn for the left.
—Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
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What is the difference between antisemitism and anti-Zionism? On October 7, 2023, members of Hamas, the militant group that controls the Gaza Strip, invaded more than 20 Israeli towns and army bases in a horrific surprise attack.
—Ellen Friedrichs, Parents, 14 Oct. 2023
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Decades before the creation of the state of Israel, Vladimir Lenin laid the groundwork for anti-Zionism.
—Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
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And while there was some overlap between antisemitism and anti-Zionism, the two were also clearly separate.
—David Lauter, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023
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The oppressive system is anti-Zionism itself.
—Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
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Others feel that there needs to be a clearer separation between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
—Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
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This false conflation between antisemitism and anti-Zionism cheapens real acts of antisemitism that harm us all.
—Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 6 Mar. 2024
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Mark Kelly Some say that anti-Zionism isn’t tantamount to antisemitism.
—Joshua Muravchik, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
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But rally organizers said that was not enough and demanded, among other things, that the schools define antisemitism to include anti-Zionism.
—Laura Meckler, Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2024
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Their definition classifies most forms of anti-Zionism as antisemitic.
—Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
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Sixty percent cite the mainstreaming of anti-Zionism — the belief that Israel should not exist as a Jewish state — as a major cause.
—David Ingber, New York Daily News, 8 June 2026
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Back on campus, the conflict about antisemitism versus anti-Zionism has landed in the middle of a decades-long, unresolved argument over speech itself.
—Charles Homans Gabra Zackman Anna Diamond Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 29 May 2024
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That the modern form of antisemitism is anti-Zionism, that the irrational obsessive hate of Israel is antisemitism.
—Steven Zeitchik, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025
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At Beth El in January, Marder led a discussion of anti-Zionism in politics.
—Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
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As a Jewish man who grew up going to synagogue in Texas, Young said equating anti-Zionism and antisemitism is dangerous.
—USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024
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The deep Zionism of the Hanukkah story resonates especially in this era of endemic anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
—Jon Levin, National Review, 25 Dec. 2024
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Opposing anti-Zionism is, similarly, a natural extension of my concern for truth and equality.
—Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
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For Leifer, the irony—that Jews, who had long been pressured by the right to police anti-Zionism, now faced pressure from the left to disavow Zionism in any form—was bewildering.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024
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Around 100 students and their parents attended the event, which focused on teaching juniors and seniors tools to combat antisemitism and anti-Zionism in college.
—Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 25 Mar. 2026
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The American Jewish Committee argues anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism.
—Mike Stunson, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
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His anti-Zionism is not just about countering the actions of this Israeli government, but that there shouldn’t be any Israeli government, that there shouldn’t be any Israel.
—New York Daily News, Twin Cities, 12 Nov. 2025
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Greenblatt suggested that a major misconception of antisemitism that plagues universities is the idea that anti-Zionism is a political stance, rather than one of prejudice.
—Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 10 Mar. 2026
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The general electorate looks very little like the primary, and Mamdani’s critics will now have months to hammer his weaknesses, not just on the substance of socialism and anti-Zionism but also on the style.
—Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 18 July 2025
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Still, Ko’s anti-Zionism exists necessarily in relation to mainstream Jewish identity—as a form of dissent.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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On top of allegations that students and teachers have faced retaliation for their advocacy, protesters are calling on the city to reject attempts to equate anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
—Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 30 May 2024
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Using that definition, the Anti-Defamation League considers anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism.
—Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
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