Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism
American-Israeli historian and politician Michael Oren writes that "great wars in history eventually became great wars about history.”
Michael Oren, through his statement, points out that objective history is impossible. The wars in the past are difficult to understand and people end up fighting about what happened, often because they look at the same events from different perspectives.
However, when so-called historians, scholars, politicians, journalists and other leaders from different backgrounds highlight only Israel ‘for opprobrium and international sanction—out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East—is anti-Semitic.’[1]
Anti-Zionists criticize only Israel and imply the other groups involved in Israel’s conflicts are innocent. Moreover, anti-Zionists are generous in using offensive and hateful words and symbols like the ones connected to the Nazis. They are not interested, for the most part, in seeing the other sides and angles of Israel’s history, but are quick to label Israel as a ‘criminal state’ without trying to be objective (as much as possible).
Out of their genuine desire to reject the objective truth (as objective as possible), and out of their desire to demonize Israel by any costs and means, they accuse Israel of acts like genocide, colonialism, terrorism, war crimes, apartheid, crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or racism. They deny Israel the right to self-determination and promote their toxic propaganda in order to get as much support as possible from anyone interested in helping them to promote their agenda.
They try to humiliate Israel and the Jewish people with their agenda. That is especially seen among the Muslim nations who accuse Israel of occupying the West Bank and denying the rights of the Palestinian people. Matas says: ‘the mantra that Israel sits in illegal occupation of territory is so often repeated that it has become one of those catchphrases that people utter unthinkingly.’[2] Therefore, the Palestinians and their supporters see no other option but to erase Israel out of the map of the world.
[1] Harrison, Bernard, The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism, Kindle, loc. 1730.
[2] Matas, David, Aftershock: Anti-Zionism & Anti-Semitism, Kindle, loc. 1277.