Why anti-Zionism is not the same as antisemitism

Following the great news that footballer Nicolas Anelka has come out in solidarity with the anti-Zionist freedom fighting French comedian Dieudonne M’bala M’bala, the Zionists who dominate the media and British football are mounting a campaign to censure Anelka. They claim that the reverse Nazi salute (known in France as ‘la quenelle') that he used - and which was pioneered by M'bala as part of his legitimate "Death to all Zionists in the world" campaign is 'antisemitic' - just because antisemites like to be photographed using the salute at Auschwitz and other places where Jews have been murdered.

Every sane person knows that, while antisemitism is a very bad thing, anti-Zionism is a very good thing and is the natural position adopted by any good, liberal, enlightened person.So following on from my previous posts (the boycott campaign to counter the ludicrous accusation that the boycoot Israel campaign is in any way similar to the Nazi boycott of Jews, and what we leftists believe to boycott the ludicrous accusation that leftists have inconsistent and hypocritical views about Israel) I have produced a chart below which obviously confirms that anti-Zionism and antisemitism have absolutely nothing in common.

	Antisemitism	Anti-Zionism
Official Definition	Hatred of Jews	Hatred of the Jewish state
What do its most vociferous proponents ultimately want	Physical destruction of the entire Jewish race	Physical destruction of the entire Jewish state
What is the core belief	The Jews are the root cause of most suffering in the world	The Jewish state is the root cause of most suffering in the world
What it based on	The singling out and demonization of Jews – and Jews alone - based on a set of complete lies about the political, economic, social and religious behaviour of Jews	The singling out and demonization of the Jewish state – and the Jewish state alone - based on a set of complete lies about the political, economic, social and religious behaviour of the Jewish state
How is it currently sustained	Continued and incessant lies about Jews – much of it emanating from Muslim countries - promulgated in the media and on the web – that is rarely if ever challenged	Continued and incessant lies about the Jewish State – much of it emanating from Muslim countries - promulgated in the media and on the web– that is rarely if ever challenged
Typical media presentation	Cartoons of big fat Jews who control the world and eat non-Jewish babies; cartoons of Jews killing non-Jewish children.	Cartoons of big fat Jews who control the world and eat non-Jewish babies; cartoons of Jewish soldiers killing Arab children
Who currently are the most virulent proponents	Muslims,  left-wing political activists, Black panthers, right-wing extremists, racists, self-hating Jews In Muslim countries Pew surveys report 96% of the population ‘hate Jews’	Muslims,  left-wing political activists, Black panthers, right-wing extremists, racists, self-hating Jews In Muslim countries Pew surveys report 98% of the population ‘hate Israel’
Most common beliefs	·         Jews are baby-killers; ·         Jews bake the blood of Christian children in their Passover matzos; ·         Jews did 9/11 ·         The Jews control America, Britain, France (add any country you like, including even Arab ones) like ·         The Jews control the world banking system, the United Nations (add any international organization you like)	·         Zionists are baby-killers; ·         Zionists bake the blood of Arab children in their Passover matzos; ·         Zionists did 9/11 ·         Zionists control America, Britain, France (add any country you like, including even Arab ones) like ·         Zionists control the world banking system, the United Nations (add any international organization you like)
Typical everyday behaviour	·         Criticizing Jews for certain character traits (such as meanness, aggressiveness, deviousness) that are actually far more prominent in all other ethnic and religious groups ·         Criticizing Jews for their genuinely good character traits (such as intelligence and business acumen) as in ‘The Jews use these traits to trick and steal from non-Jews’	·         Criticizing the Jewish State for certain character traits (such as meanness, aggressiveness, deviousness) that are actually far more prominent in all other countries ·         Criticizing Jews for their genuinely good character traits (such as intelligence and business acumen) as in ‘The Zionists use these traits to trick and steal from the Arabs’
More ‘active’ behaviour	Boycott Jewish businesses; vandalise Jewish-owned shops and their products, including  daubing Swastikas and Stars of David.	Boycott Jewish owned Israeli businesses; vandalise Jewish-owned Israeli shops and their products, including  daubing Swastikas and Stars of David.
What especially angers proponents	·         Jews defending themselves from attack;  ·         Any Jewish success in science and culture	·         The Jewish state defending itself from attack; ·         Any Israeli success in science and culture
What they have never heard of or must never be mentioned	The total destruction of Jewish communities in Muslim lands after the establishment of Israel	The total destruction of Jewish communities in Muslim lands after the establishment of Israel
Beliefs about the Holocaust	The holocaust is largely a myth perpetuated to gain sympathy for Israel	The holocaust is largely a myth perpetuated to gain sympathy for Israel. The only real holocaust was committed by Zionists against the Palestinians
About the killing of Jews by the Nazis	If it happened at all it was a natural reaction against Jewish crimes	If it really happened then the Jews must have had it coming to them. After all Zionism equals Nazism.
About the killing of Jews by Arab terrorists	If it really happens then the Jews must have had it coming to them	If it happens at all it is a natural reaction against Zionist crimes
About violence generally	Jews are legitimate targets for violence	Zionist Jews are legitimate targets for violence
Who are their heroes	Hitler -  because he “stood up to the Jews”	Saddam Hussein, Ahmedinejad and any other Muslim bigot you can think of – because they “stood up to the Jews Zionists”
Mandatory reading	Protocols of the Elder of Zion, anything by Gilad Atzmon	Protocols of the Elder of Zion, anything by Gilad Atzmon
Most hated thing in the whole world	The State of Israel	The State of Israel

Another great anti-Zionist demonstration: the apartheid Thames Barrier

The Church's life-size replica of the hated Zionist Thames Barrier

Fantastic news: Following on from St James’ Church in Piccadilly constructing a replica of the Zionist apartheid wall the nearby St John's church has unveiled its "Tear down the Zionist apartheid Thames Barrier". Here is the brave statement by the St John’s Church Leicester Square 

In solidarity with our Palestinian brethren at Christmas time, we at the St John’s Church Leicester Square are delighted to unveil an impressive act of solidarity: a life-size replica of the hated, apartheid Zionist Thames Barrier. As everybody is aware, the Thames Barrier was erected by the so-called “British Government” of Margaret Thatcher (but under direct Zionist control) 30 years ago. The British Zionists laughingly claim that the Thames Barrier is a ‘security’ barrier to protect London from flooding during high tides. But everybody knows that the barrier was built specifically to fence in the entire Muslim population of Europe. This includes some 285 million Palestinian refugees who form the remnant of the 250 million Palestinians brutally massacred by the Zionists in one day alone in 1967***.  Anybody who has seen this brutal monstrosity close up when it is raised will have witnessed the heartbreaking scenes of Palestinian refugees and other Muslims being brutally stopped from reaching London along the River Thames.  This is as much a breach of the Palestinians' human rights as the hated Zionist wall, which restricts the inalienable rights of Palestinians to commit suicide bombings against pizza parlours filled with Zionist children.

Our replica of the Thames Barrier took 16 years to build at a cost of just 439 billion pounds, and was funded voluntarily by UK and EU taxpayers through the financing of two charities: the Christian charity “Feed the Gaza Poor” and the Muslim Charity “Jihad against Jews”. On the 12th day of Christmas (6 January 2014) the barrier will be torn down and destroyed as an act of hopeful symbolism.  In response to those Zionists who question why the money was not spent on actually helping Palestinians, we can assure the world that there is no better way to help the Palestinians than to put on special shows in central London at Christmas time demanding the end of the Zionist state. In any case the Palestinians already get sufficient funds from the UK and EU to carry out their valiant armed struggle.  And to those ignorant Zionists who question why a Church is supporting the Palestinian armed struggle at Christmas time when Christians are being “massacred by Muslims” throughout the Middle East, Far East and Africa we say that those actions are the natural response to the Zionist occupation as exemplified by the Thames Barrier. In any case, set against the Zionist crimes the Muslim persecution and murder of Christians (in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Algeria, Lebanon, Libya, Afghanistan, Turkey, Nigeria, Kenya, Central African Republic, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Philipines, Gaza, Bethlehem and other PA controlled areas) is of no significance at all and must therefore be completely ignored by all true Christians. 

**All these figures have been independently verified by the Right Honorable George Galloway, MP for Bradford Jihad South

The importance of the campaign to boycott Israel

While the campaign to boycott the Zionist entity gathers momentum, I have noticed that some Zionists are attempting to discredit the campaign by claiming tha there are similarities between this boycott  campaign and the Nazi boycott of Jews in the 1930s. As the following table makes clear there is absolutely no basis for arguing that these boycott campaigns are in any way similar.

	Nazi boycott	Anti-Israel boycott
What was/is the ultimate objective	Physical destruction of the entire Jewish race	Physical destruction of the entire Jewish state
What was/is it based on	The singling out and demonization of Jews  based on a set of complete lies (propagated by anti-Semitic bigots) about the political, economic, social and religious behaviour of Jews	The singling out and demonization of the Jewish state based on a set of complete lies (propagated by anti-Semitic bigots) about political, economic, social and religious behaviour of the Jewish state
What was/must be ignored and covered up at all costs to maintain the momentum	The genuine atrocities committed by the Nazis and their proxies against the Jews	The genuine atrocities committed by the Arab states and their terrorist proxies against the Jews
Who was/is the real brains behind it	Hard core anti-semites, national socialists, and politically active academics and lawyers	Hard core anti-semites, socialists, and politically active academics and lawyers
Who else supports/supported it?	All the Arab states and also anti-Semites in the rest of the world	All the Arab states and also anti-Semites in the rest of the world
Business targets	Only Jewish owned businesses (or those working with them) were targeted	Only Jewish owned businesses (or those working with them) are targeted
Academic targets	Only Jewish academics (or those working with them) were targeted	Only Jewish academics (or those working with them) are targeted
Tactics: Direct Action 1	Anti-semitic mobs vandalised Jewish-owned shops and their products	Anti-semitic mobs vandalise Jewish-owned Israeli shops and their products
Tactics: Direct Action 2	Anti-semitic, swastika wearing, mobs daub Stars of David on the windows, walls and products of Jewish owned businesses	Anti-semitic mobs daub Stars of David and swastikas on the windows,  walls and products of Jewish owned Israeli businesses
Tactics: Media propaganda	Cartoons of big fat Jews who control the world and eat non-Jewish babies; non-stop articles written by anti-Semitic liars demonizing Jews	Cartoons of big fat Jews who control the world and eat non-Jewish babies; non-stop articles written by anti-Semitic liars demonizing the Jewish state
Tactics: Lawfare	Special Nazi laws introduced to both outlaw Jewish-owned businesses and criminalise attempts by anybody else to work with them	Special EU and Arab laws introduced to outlaw Jewish-owned Israeli businesses and criminalise attempts by anybody else work with them
Tactics: Secondary boycott	Non-Jews visiting Jewish houses and businesses were publicly vilified and threatened to be boycotted themselves if they did not cease their interaction with Jews	Non-Jews visiting the Jewish state and doing business with it are publicly vilified and threatened to be boycotted themselves if they do not cease their interaction with the Jewish state
Ultimately who other than Jews was/is affected	Rest of the world suffered from loss of scientific and cultural contribution from Jews	Rest of the world suffers from loss of scientific and cultural contribution from Jews
What was/will be the ultimate outcome of the boycott	Millions of Jews died, but it did not help the Nazis in any way at all	Millions of Jews may die, but it will not help the Palestinians in any way at all

See also: More academics in boycott campaign and Academic boycott of Israel