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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/06/antizionism-totalitarian-conspiracy-theory-rotting-west/
Antizionism Is a Psychosis Dressed Up as a Theory of Justice
(Telegraph-UK) Allister Heath - It's not Jews, we keep being told, it's the Israelis. If only they didn't "overact," there would be no antisemitism; if only British Jews repudiated Israel, they would be left alone. The antisemites supposedly have no agency and merely respond to unbearable provocations. Everything about this narrative is a lie, and it will destroy the West if it succeeds in rotting our minds, warping our critical faculties and chasing away the Jewish diaspora. There was once a legitimate debate about whether Zionism, the idea that Jews should again have their own state in their ancestral homeland, was the best way forward for the long-suffering Jewish people. Pogroms in Russia and the Middle East, the West's refusal to let in fleeing Jews in the 1930s, the Holocaust, the UN's creation of the State of Israel in 1948 and the expulsion of virtually all Jews from Muslim countries resolved that question. Zionism became the reality. Antizionism is a specific, modernized hate ideology with an eliminationist agenda that targets the State of Israel, and only Israel, for dissolution, projects upon it everything many activists loathe about the West, and comes with an entire, warped analytical framework. It is the new antisemitism for our times. Antizionists fixate on the world's only Jewish state, the abolition of which they believe to be the omni-solution to all of the world's problems. They only care about conflicts involving Jews. The only Jewish state is seen as the purest embodiment of Western evil. Antizionism is a psychosis dressed up as a theory of justice. The writer is editor of the Sunday Telegraph-UK.