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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/09/05/time-expose-horrifying-logic-hard-left-anti-zionism/
The Horrifying Logic of Hard-Left Anti-Zionism
(Telegraph-UK) Allister Heath - I find the fact that so many on the extreme Left and at the top of the Labour Party now routinely describe themselves as anti-Zionists to be not just baffling but absolutely horrifying. Zionism involves accepting a simple proposition: the Jewish people should have their own country in the historic Land of Israel. Being a Zionist today means advocating the survival of Israel. Being an anti-Zionist must therefore entail reversing this, with all of the calamitous implications that this implies for its Jewish citizens. Those who rail endlessly against "the Zionists" aren't merely demanding a two-state solution or better treatment for Palestinians: all of that would be compatible with Zionism. The hard Left wants to dismantle the only truly democratic nation state in the region and force the Jewish people, once again, into minority status. Anti-Zionism of the sort propounded by the hard Left is racism of the worst kind: obsessed with delegitimizing the world's only Jewish country (and no other), in the full knowledge that its existence is what protects its people from persecution, misery and even death. How is that not anti-Semitic? The writer is editor of the Sunday Telegraph UK.