The Anti-Defamation League has long made it a priority to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism, but in recent years, it has become almost an obsession. The group’s latest report subverts the fight against antisemitism towards support for Israeli crimes.

Despite pressure from pro-Israel groups, the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has not embraced the controversial IHRA working definition of antisemitism.

Zionist groups are making cynical use of San Francisco State University’s identity-based protections against discrimination to ban criticism against Israel as antisemitic.

At the heart of such campaigns is the false notion that criticism of Zionism and Israeli policy and support for justice in Palestine constitute antisemitism. In response to these attacks and the growing violence of Israeli policies, increasing numbers of Jews, particularly among younger generations, now openly define themselves as anti-Zionist.

The new Israeli government is so radical that even moderate Israelis are saying that Zionism is racism. That’s what scares American Jewish leaders and why they will rely even more on the lie that Anti-Zionism is antisemitism. This must not be allowed to succeed.

The proper response to antisemitism is to increase solidarity with other oppressed groups, not demand support for Zionism.

The Department of Education has announced an investigation into Berkeley Law School over a student group bylaw challenging Zionism.

This week the White House announced that it was beginning to develop a national strategy to combat antisemitism. It’s too soon to know what this effort will look like, but there are concerns it will include the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, which has been used to target critics of Israel.

I met Yair Lapid when I was an adolescent Zionist. I now recognize that Zionism has only served to uphold the basic tenets of antisemitism — that Jews do not belong in the world.

Donald Trump openly conflates Judaism with Zionism. It’s antisemitic and deserves to be called out, but some of those criticisms have come from individuals and groups who have been pushing this very narrative for years.

Zionism requires the demise of and continuous crimes against the Palestinian people. I will oppose it regardless of what you label me.