MITCHELL KAPLAN
KAPLAN: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism, the world’s oldest and most lethal prejudice
To deny the legitimacy of the Jewish homeland — or the Jewish people’s attachment to that land — is to try to erase Jewish memory. This is what the Romans were attempting when they renamed the land “Palestine.” The Christians during the Middle Ages and the Ottomans during their occupation of Palestine continued to deny the validity of the Jewish connection to Israel. To use the modern parlance, these efforts represented the schemes of colonizers to eliminate the identity of the people they colonized.
October 25, 2024