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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/opinion/letters/anti-zionism-anti-semitism-israel.html
Why Anti-Zionism Is No Different from Anti-Semitism
(New York Times) David Harris - Re: "Anti-Zionism Isn't the Same as Anti-Semitism," by Michelle Goldberg (New York Times, Dec. 7): If anti-Zionism isn't a form of anti-Semitism, what is? To deny the Jewish people, of all the peoples on earth, the right to self-determination surely is discriminatory, all the more so 71 years after the UN General Assembly voted to recommend the creation of a "Jewish" state. And if the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement isn't another form of anti-Semitism, what is? To single out Israel, the only liberal democracy in the Middle East, for demonization and isolation, while ignoring egregious human rights violators aplenty, once again smacks of anti-Jewish hatred. Nor does it take into account the many efforts by Israel to forge a peace deal with the Palestinians, beginning 70 years ago, only to be spurned time and again. Treating Israel differently from any other country in the world is at the core of the anti-Zionist and BDS outlook. The writer is chief executive of the American Jewish Committee.