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
  • Yet the public reckoning with anti-Zionism still awaits its moment.
    — Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • There has been much discussion over whether anti-Zionism is antisemitism.
    — Diane Gensler, Baltimore Sun, 26 May 2025
  • There is constant debate about where the precise line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism falls.
    — Emma Green, New Yorker, 23 May 2025
  • Like Stalinism or the Khmer Rouge, anti-Zionism represents a wrong turn for the left.
    — Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 oppressive system is anti-Zionism itself.
    — Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • Others feel that there needs to be a clearer separation between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.
    — Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 24 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Mark Kelly Some say that anti-Zionism isn’t tantamount to antisemitism.
    — Joshua Muravchik, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2023
  • 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
  • Their definition classifies most forms of anti-Zionism as antisemitic.
    — Lisa Rozner, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • At Beth El in January, Marder led a discussion of anti-Zionism in politics.
    — Eyal Press, New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Opposing anti-Zionism is, similarly, a natural extension of my concern for truth and equality.
    — Adam Louis-Klein, The Atlantic, 18 June 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • Piker, as Klein pointed out in his April column, has also condemned antisemitism and tries to make a distinction between antisemitism and anti-Zionism.
    — Sara Dorn, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • The American Jewish Committee argues anti-Zionism is a form of antisemitism.
    — Mike Stunson, Sacramento Bee, 7 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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