Unfortunately- and I say this as a person who supports Israel's right to live in peace and security on the PRE-1967 lines, in the only area that are truly Israel, with a viable Palestinian state allowed to live in equal peace and security next to it- Zionism has always had antisemitic elements.

It is antisemitic in arguing for the "Negation of the Exile"- that is, the assertion that NOTHING that was done by anyone Jewish after the Roman-and-Persian Empire inflicted Dispersal- is of any value(on edit) and, as I would have written if I’d read the article properly, the idea that everybody in the Diaspora should move as a group to what would then be Israel, therefore abandoning the rest of the world to…wait for it…those who are antisemites.

It is antisemitic to argue, as Zionists often did in the post-1945 era, that people who survived the Holocaust- and even those who died in it- were cowards(on edit: or even worse “human debris”, as Ben-Gurion indefensibly called them), that they all just placidly got on the trains to the camps and none put up any fight- which is a despicable lie, since there were Jewish militias and Jews fighting as part of partisan units and members of the armed forces of the Allied countries throughout Europe.

And it was antisemitic for the Israeli government to seize funds Germany was ordered to pay to Holocaust survivors for its own uses, leaving those survivors- the ones the money was SUPPOSED to go to- with nearly nothing. Today, many of the few remaining Holocaust survivors in Israel are spending their last years living in poverty.

None of that should ever have happened. None of that was necessary to create this state.