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Why Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitic
(Wall Street Journal) Rebecca Cypess - Anti-Zionism undermines the millennia-old ties between Judaism and the Land of Israel. While preparing to leave my position as a tenured full professor and academic administrator at Rutgers University in May, I was called out for contending that calls for Israel's destruction, including the view that Israel has no right to defend itself or its citizens, are antisemitic. Anti-Zionism - opposition to the Jewish right of self-determination in the Jewish people's historic homeland - is antisemitic because it attacks a core belief of Judaism. Three times a day, traditional Jews pray for the rebuilding of Jerusalem as part of the Jewish homeland. Academics would be outraged if anyone tried to dictate to any other religion what its beliefs should be. The writer is dean of the Undergraduate Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Yeshiva University.