Why should it be obligatory to proclaim your support for Israel's existence simply to prove you aren't an antisemite? Israel's existence does nothing to actually combat antisemitism, and in many respects its core assumption- which is that everybody who isn't Jewish wants Jews dead, and that the Gentile world is somehow pathologically incapable of NOT being a moral danger to Jews- actually makes it in Zionism's interest for antisemitism to expand?
What would you say to those of us- and for the record, I personally support the right of Israel to exist in peace and safety on the pre-1967 lines, the only areas that ever were legitimately part of the State of Israel, provided a Palestinian state is also allowed to live in peace, safety and prosperity on all the lands of the West Bank and Gaza- to all of us, Gentiles and Jews, who argue that the way to fight antisemitism is not to focus solely on sustaining a now-permanently right-wing nationalist project that displaced hundreds of thousands of largely innocent Palestinians in the late 1940s, which seems permanently opposed to anything close to Palestinian self-determination- when we all know there can't be peace without Palestinians getting the right to that- but to focus, instead, on building a global movement to wipe out ALL forms of bigotry and oppression? Who recognize that, while antisemitism is vile and indefensible, it isn't the ONLY form of hatred that matters, and who believe that the true lesson of the Holocaust is "Never Again- For ANYONE!"?
What is your response to the large group of people in that category, people of decency and good will who are fighting against not only any dangers to the world's Jewish communities, but the dangers faced by all other historically oppressed communities?
Why dismiss that idea and reduce the whole thing to "nothing matters but making everybody proclaim their support for this one state- a state which is always going to be there no matter what, no matter what views people express about it"?
Why focus on one narrow, exclusivist project rather than join a global movement to defeat ALL hate?
