How to Use anti-Zionism in a Sentence

anti-Zionism

noun
  • Massie said his vote was due to the conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism.
    Julia Johnson, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
  • 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
  • There is constant debate about where the precise line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism falls.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
  • There has been much discussion over whether anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
    Diane Gensler, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Mark Kelly Some say that anti-Zionism isn’t tantamount to antisemitism.
    Joshua Muravchik, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Campus anti-Zionism and leftwing antisemitism are not new.
    Matthew Continetti, National Review, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Like many other countries included in the report, the country saw a rise in antisemitism and anti-Zionism following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks.
    Rachel Wolf, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2025
  • Indeed, with the plurality of the world’s Jews living in Israel and almost all of the rest strongly attached to it, ‘anti-Zionism’ is a transparent rebranding of antisemitism.
    Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 14 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The American Jewish Committee argues anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism.
    Mike Stunson, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
  • In the view of some critics, the real problem is not the definition’s faulty application but its flawed content, in particular its vague examples of anti-Israel speech, which blur the line between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
    Eyal Press, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Using that definition, the Anti-Defamation League considers anti-Zionism a form of antisemitism.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The same can’t be said of anti-Zionism. Antisemitism in America has consisted mostly of small things: exclusion from country clubs, restrictive covenants on housing, quotas in college admissions, casual slights and insults.
    Joshua Muravchik, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • Mara, a 27-year-old nonprofit organization worker in Washington, D.C., said it’s been difficult to see anti-Zionism blur into antisemitism.
    Samantha-Jo Roth, The Washington Examiner, 3 June 2025
  • Waters has always rejected these accusations, largely on the grounds that anti-Zionism should not be conflated with antisemitism and that doing so is a way of stifling legitimate criticism of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 7 Nov. 2023
  • There has been much discussion over whether anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
    Diane Gensler, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2025

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