The biggest lie is the accusation that Zionism is racism.

In fact, they are the exact opposites.

Racist ideologies use the differences between peoples, such as race, religion, gender, economic status, etc., as an excuse to oppress, discriminate, and deprive people of their natural and most basic rights:

These include:

• equality under the law
• the right to own property
• education
• health
• security
• and the most basic right of all - life

 Zionism, on the other hand, sought and gained for the Jewish people the ability to rule themselves, which is a basic right shared by every nation. In the Diaspora, Jews where either oppressed by others or depended on the whims of the majority in the countries where they lived. The whims often turned into persecutions and pogroms.

In the Diaspora Jews were never free. The self-rule given to Jews by Zionism ended much of that, giving Jews their desperately needed freedoms. There is nothing exclusive or supremacist about the right of self-rule. Ruling oneself is the exact opposite of being ruled by others. Thus Zionism is the exact opposite of racism.

The accusation that Zionism is racism is motivated by a simple reasoning: After the Holocaust, it became unacceptable and ineffective to call Jews a subhuman race. In the face of those horrors traditional anti-Semitism was seen as barbaric and primitive.

But the underlying hatred remained.

Today, the worst accusation you can level at someone is to call them "racists". This, simple label, been the ultimate negation, which delegitimates and dehumanizes the accused almost automatically. Present day anti-Semites (a k a anti-Zionists) are trying to stick to the state of Israel the false accusations of "Racism" "Apartheid" and "ethnic cleansing" in order to deny Jews their inherit and most basic right for self-rule and self-determination, the right of every nation to be free.

Not all criticisms of Israel are anti-Semitism, but anti-Zionism is racism, because it denies basic rights to Jews. In denying Jews these most basic rights, anti-Zionists commit an act of discrimination, racism.

 Anti-Semitism is simply racism aimed against Jews.

 Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism and that is all simple logic:

Adapted from Active Zionism

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