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Source: http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns/dennisprager/2006/05/30/199115.html
Why Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitism
(Townhall.com) Dennis Prager - Imagine someone saying that he seeks the destruction of Italy because he regards Italian national identity as racist. Further, imagine that this person constantly denies being anti-Italian, because he does not hate all Italians, only Italy and all those who believe Italy should exist. Now substitute "Jewish" for "Italian" and "Israel" for "Italy" and you understand the absurdity of the argument that one can be anti-Zionist but not anti-Jewish. The belief that Jews belong in Zion (the biblical term for Jerusalem) is as old as the Jewish people. Starting in 586 BCE, with the destruction of the first Jewish state, Jews were already Zionists in that they fervently prayed to return to Zion. While the movement known by the specific name "Zionism" is modern, the movement of Jews returning to Zion is more than 2,500 years old.