5 steps to clear the fog

c — call it what it is: antizionism

Naming antizionism directly is the first step in confronting it. Euphemisms blur accountability and let the movement pose as “policy criticism.” Saying antizionism hits the conceptual bull’s-eye. Stay there. Avoid accusing antizionists of classical antisemitism or debating Judaism, Israel, or “Zionism;”; such diversions shift focus away from the ideology itself. Antizionists rely on obscurity and react defensively to scrutiny, knowing their movement cannot survive exposure. They even invite accusations of classical antisemitism to trigger their familiar script: “Antizionism isn’t antisemitism; Judaism is faith, Zionism is politics.” Don’t play that game. Name antizionism—and make its advocates defend it.

l — lay bare its geneology (soviet-nazi-islamist)

Exposing antizionism’s genealogy reveals a single, continuous lineage: born of anti-Judaism, Nazism, and Islamism; later sanitized and systematized by Soviet propagandists; yet never shedding its original totalitarian roots—all directed toward the delegitimization of Jewish peoplehood. Nazi ideology portrayed Jews as global manipulators; Islamist rhetoric cast the Jewish state as a blasphemy; Soviet disinformation reframed Jewish nationalism as racism. Antizionism did not arise from moral conviction but from inherited projects of political, cultural, and theological Jew-hatred, adapted to modern vocabularies. Expose its roots, and its moral pretense collapses.

E — expose its history of harm (soviet/mena jewry)

Exposing antizionism’s record of harm means telling the stories of the Jewish worlds it destroyed. In the Soviet Union, authorities criminalized Jewish identity and imprisoned those who refused to disavow it. Across the Middle East and North Africa, antizionist regimes expelled ancient communities, seized their property, and erased them from national memory. In Eastern Europe, party purges dismantled Jewish civic life in the name of “anti-imperialism.” Across these regions, the same logic held: antizionism punished Jews for asserting peoplehood or connection to Israel. Remembering these histories exposes antizionism as a system of hate.

a — analyze antizionist behavior (libel, erasure, denial)

Analyzing antizionism today reveals a pattern of organized hostility and deceit. Its central weapon is libel—the relentless circulation of slanders depicting Jews as colonizers, criminals, or conspirators. Around this core orbit tactics of harassment, stalking, and abuse; identity erasure that denies Jewish peoplehood; atrocity denial that justifies violence; and symbolic terror in marches calling for Jewish death. Antizionists vandalize synagogues, desecrate memorials, and intimidate Jewish spaces to enforce social isolation. Their violence is physical and rhetorical alike—a campaign of defamation, intimidation, and exclusion that poisons public life under the guise of “critique.”

r — rally to respond across sectors (media, politics, culture)

Rallying across sectors means moving from defense to offense. In media, set the agenda: name the ideology, expose its networks, and shape the moral vocabulary of discourse. In politics, advance laws and alliances that define and isolate antizionism as discrimination. In culture, assert Jewish creativity and presence—fill the arts, universities, and public spaces with unapologetic expressions of identity and continuity. The task is not only to refute lies but to occupy the terrain of meaning itself: to make Jewish belonging visible, confident, and unassailable, and to render antizionism intellectually and socially indefensible.