$7,000 per post - A libel claiming that Israel pays social media influencers “$7,000 per post” to oppose antizionism—a figure based on rough estimates of roughly $900,000 in 2025 FARA filings for influencer campaigns. Antizionist activists spread this claim widely to brand any dissenting voice as “hasbara” or “paid propaganda,” using it as a ready-made accusation that dismisses genuine opposition to antizionism as inauthentic or externally purchased rather than sincerely held.

AIPAC derangement - Conspiratorial claim that AIPAC secretly controls the U.S. government by buying politicians with “Zionist money,” dictates Middle East policy against American interests, and acts as a disloyal foreign agent. It recycles classic antisemitic tropes of Jewish financial domination and dual loyalty, now laundered through antizionist rhetoric to demonize Israel. Leftist politicians and activists use “AIPAC” as shorthand for evil billionaire or Epstein-class enemy, running public trackers to dox supportive lawmakers and fueling rhetoric that has led to real violence, including a foiled plot to assassinate AIPAC-backed politicians.

AMIA bombing - A major antizionist attack in which Hezbollah, backed by Iran, destroyed the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds. The perpetrators claimed the massacre was “retaliation” for Israeli actions and Argentina’s perceived ties to Israel, making it one of the deadliest antizionist massacre in history.

Anti-normalization - A racist policy, prevalent in many Arab countries, that prohibits or criminalizes any contact, dialogue, cooperation, or normal human relations with Israelis simply because they are Israeli. In several Arab states, these laws make it illegal to speak with an Israeli, join any joint project, or engage in basic professional, academic, or cultural exchange. It is enforced through state repression, social boycotts, and purges in activist spaces. The explicit goal is the complete isolation of Israel and the treatment of any interaction with Israelis as a moral and racial offense — a form of institutionalized bigotry that deems an entire people untouchable.

Antizionism - Israel-hatred, or the contemporary form of Jew-hatred. While pre-modern antijudaism attacked the Jewish religion, modernity produced two parallel strains of Jew-hatred: classical antisemitism, which casts Jews as non-white invaders in the West, and antizionism, which casts Jews as hyper-white invaders in the Middle East. A distinctly left-coded bigotry, antizionism attacks Jews through their collective embodiment in Israel using three main libels — colonizer, apartheid, and genocide — while justifying attacks on Israelis and diaspora Jews marked as “Zionists.”

Antizionism denial - The persistent refusal—across political, academic, and communal lines—to recognize antizionism as a coherent, eliminationist hate ideology that seeks to destroy Israel, the sole country in the Middle East protecting Jews from statelessness and ethnic cleansing. It reframes the entire antizionist movement as mere legitimate “criticism,” acceptable “protest,” or understandable “grievance.” This denial whitewashes calls for Israel’s elimination by Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah, downplays global targeting of Jews as “Zionists,” and blocks honest confrontation with the ideology’s genocidal core.

Antizionism evasion - The practice of avoiding direct acknowledgment or confrontation of antizionism as a really-existing eliminationist ideology. It does so through common tactics such as reframing antizionism as legitimate “criticism of Israel,” claiming it is only problematic when it “crosses the line” into antisemitism, or shifting focus to procedural or secondary issues. This evasion permits antizionist libels, harassment, and institutional capture to continue unchecked.

Antizionist - a person who actively promotes or adheres to antizionism. Distinguished from pre-1948 intracommunal Jewish debates about statehood (hyphenated as “anti-Zionism”).

Antizionist abuse - Targeted mistreatment, intimidation, exclusion, or psychological harm directed at individuals marked as "Zionists."

Antizionist complex - A term coined by Jacques Givet in his 1979 book The Antizionist Complex. It describes a self-reinforcing network of institutions, academics, activists, NGOs, media outlets, and international bodies — including the UN — that normalize, legitimize, and propagate antizionism as a dominant moral framework. This network gives antizionism structural power and cultural respectability that classical antisemitism largely lost after 1945.

Antizionist conspiracy - Conspiracy theories that frame Israel or “Zionism” as controlling governments, media, or global events, or, specifically, being responsible for capitalism, climate change, American police brutality, American housing shortages, American healthcare dysfunction, JFK’s assassination, Charlie Kirk’s assassination, Epstein’s crimes, all wars in the Middle East, and more.

Antizionist disputations - The dynamic in which antizionism traps Jews and Israel in perpetual, one-sided inquisitions rather than genuine debate. Jewish voices are placed on constant trial, forced to defend Israel's right to exist or respond to libels in hostile settings. The process itself functions as a mechanism of stigma and exhaustion rather than open inquiry.

Antizionist encampment — Spectacles and staged performances, typically on university campuses or public spaces, designed to intimidate Jews, pressure and intimidate university leaders, and dominate territory. They rely on occupation of space, threatening slogans and symbols, disruption, and visible displays of power to force institutions into adopting antizionist positions.

Antizionist gaze — The obsessive, hostile, and wildly disproportionate fixation on Israel that defines much of contemporary antizionism. It involves relentless scrutiny, libels, distortions, and demonization of Israel, while ignoring or downplaying far worse atrocities elsewhere. This is often paired with antizionism denial — the refusal to acknowledge the movement’s aggression, hate, genocidal intent, support for terrorism, or record of atrocities.

Antizionist harassment - Repeated unwanted behavior intended to intimidate, distress, or silence individuals or groups associated with Israel or “Zionism,” including doxxing, verbal abuse, exclusion, or stalking.

Antizionist mobs - Large, organized or spontaneous groups engaging in confrontational, disruptive, or violent actions in the name of antizionism, often targeting Jewish institutions, events, or individuals.

Antizionist paraphernalia - Objects, clothing, flags, signs, and visual symbols used in protests or activism to signal antizionist affiliation and create a unified visual presence, including specific flags, posters, and attire.

Antizionist pseudoscience - The distortion or weaponization of academic fields — including history, law, and social theory — to supply antizionist libels with a veneer of scholarly legitimacy. Examples include the colonizer, apartheid, and genocide libels, and other forms of pseudoscience.

Antizionist purges - Systematic efforts to remove or exclude people marked as “Zionists” from institutions, professions, social circles, or public life, through cancellation, firing, or social ostracism.

Antizionist purges of 1968 Poland - A campaign by the Polish communist regime that used antizionism as a pretext to stigmatize and expel most of the remaining Jewish population. Framed as opposition to "Zionism," it forced the departure of roughly 13,000–20,000 Jews between 1968 and 1970 — in a state where classical antisemitism was officially condemned. The episode demonstrates that antizionism functions as a fully operative permission structure for Jew-hatred even where classical antisemitism is socially prohibited.

Antizionist violence - Shootings, stabbings, car rammings, bombings, physical assaults, and massacres committed in the name of antizionism. These attacks are frequently accompanied by cries of “End Zionism!”, “Free Palestine!” or other antizionist slogans.

Apartheid libel - The accusation that Israel is an "apartheid state" practicing systematic racial domination comparable to historical South Africa. It is the second stage in the core sequence of antizionist libels, following the colonizer libel and preceding the genocide libel. It recycles medieval antijudaic tropes of Jewish "exclusivism" and "supremacy," hijacks the moral authority of South Africa's anti-apartheid struggle, and ignores both Arab citizens' full participation in Israeli civic life and the documented ethnic exclusion enforced by Palestinian and Arab-majority states.

Baby-killer or child-killer libel - The libel that Israel or Israelis deliberately target and murder children. It is a direct mutation of the medieval blood libel — the false charge that Jews ritually kill non-Jewish children.

BDS - Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions. A global campaign launched in 2005 by Palestinian organizations calling for economic, academic, and cultural boycotts of Israel, divestment from companies doing business with Israel, and international sanctions. BDS is a primary vehicle of Western antizionism: it operationalizes the colonizer, apartheid, and genocide libels by treating Israel as inherently criminal and pursuing its isolation and eventual elimination.

Blood libel - The historical false accusation that Jews ritually murder non-Jewish children to use their blood in religious rituals. It has justified centuries of pogroms and massacres and is one of the most enduring anti-Jewish libels. Note: the term refers specifically to this medieval antijudaic libel. Contemporary antizionist libels such as the colonizer libel and apartheid libel are distinct and should be named precisely as antizionist libels rather than collapsed into "blood libel."

Blood libel theater - Contemporary performative or staged presentations that evoke or update the historical blood libel, typically applied to Israel through claims of deliberate child targeting or ritualistic cruelty.

Bondi Hannukah massacre - The 2025 mass stabbing attack at Bondi Beach in Australia, in which a perpetrator killed multiple people in what was widely recognized as an antizionist and antisemitic attack. It is cited in the source document as an example of contemporary stochastic anti-Jewish violence.

By any means necessary - A slogan endorsing any tactics—including violence—to achieve antizionist goals. It removes moral or legal restraints on methods used against Israel or perceived supporters.

Colonizer libel - The claim that Jews/Israelis are foreign “settler-colonizers” or “white European implants” with no legitimate connection to the land, despite millennia of Jewish historical presence. In the source document, this is presented as the foundational (“master key”) libel in the sequence of core antizionist libels, from which apartheid and genocide claims logically follow.

“Critic of Israel” or “Criticism of Israel” - Frequently used as a euphemism for antizionism. While legitimate criticism targets specific policies and remains open to evidence, debate, and reform, antizionists routinely invoke their supposed “right to criticize” as a rhetorical shield. In practice, they spread the core libels of colonialism, apartheid, and genocide while maintaining an obsessive, disproportionate focus on Israel — known as the antizionist gaze — that serves to delegitimize Israel’s existence rather than reform its policies.

Cross-the-line discourse - The framing that treats antizionism as presumptively legitimate “criticism of Israel” until it allegedly “crosses the line” into classical antisemitism. The source document critiques this as evasive, arguing that the core antizionist ideology itself requires direct examination.

Deadly exchange conspiracy theory - The claim that Israel trains or exports brutal policing tactics to U.S. law enforcement agencies (particularly the NYPD), which are then used against American minorities and protesters. It is promoted through campaigns like “Deadly Exchange” and has been invoked in statements such as Zohran Mamdani’s: “when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s laced with the IDF.” Critics describe it as a conspiracy theory that falsely links Israeli counterterrorism training to domestic U.S. police misconduct while ignoring broader contexts of policing and security cooperation.

Decolonization - In antizionist usage, the demand to dismantle Israel as a "settler-colonial" project. It is frequently invoked as a moral imperative that justifies Israel's elimination rather than policy reform.

Dog rape libel - A grotesque accusation, prominently advanced by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, claiming that Israeli soldiers or forces use dogs to rape Palestinians. The claim lacks credible evidence and is widely regarded as physically implausible. In the source framework, it is treated as a modern mutation of historical blood libels that depict Jews as bestial, animalistic, and sexually depraved.

Entebbe - The 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight by Palestinian and German terrorists, who diverted it to Entebbe, Uganda. The hijackers separated Jewish and Israeli passengers for execution before Israeli commandos conducted a rescue operation. The incident exemplified antizionist terrorism targeting Jews.

Factplaning - A portmanteau of “fact” and “explaining.” It refers to responding to antizionist libels, antizionist disputations, and ritual public humiliation by turning out pockets or endlessly presenting facts instead of pointing out the trial itself is racist.

Famine libel - Accusations that Israel is deliberately causing or engineering famine/starvation in Gaza or Palestinian territories as a policy of collective punishment. This is often presented as a subsidiary element of the broader genocide libel.

From the river to the sea (full common form: “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” or in Arabic, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be Arab”) - A slogan referring to the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea (encompassing all of modern Israel). It is interpreted by critics as a call for the elimination of the Jewish state; supporters often describe it as a call for Palestinian freedom and equality across the land.

Genocide libel - The accusation that Israel is committing or intends to commit genocide against Palestinians. In the source framework, this is the final stage in the sequence of core antizionist libels, often incorporating Holocaust inversion. It is criticized as inverting victim and perpetrator roles and disregarding Hamas’s documented strategy of using civilian suffering for propaganda.

Globalize the intifada - A slogan calling for the internationalization or replication of Palestinian “intifadas” (uprisings) worldwide. Critics view it as incitement to violence against Israelis, Jews, and Israel supporters globally; the intifadas historically involved significant terrorism.

Hamas - A Sunni Islamist militant organization that has governed Gaza since 2007. It is explicitly committed to Israel’s destruction, as stated in its founding charter and reaffirmed in later documents. Hamas carried out the October 7, 2023 massacre and uses civilian infrastructure and populations as shields while receiving major backing from Iran via the IRGC.

Hasbara - Hebrew for “explanation.” In antizionist discourse, the term is used as a pejorative to automatically dismiss any dissent from antizionism as Israeli government propaganda, regardless of its factual basis or independence. By branding dissenting voices as “hasbara,” antizionists deny them legitimacy in debate and enforce a single acceptable narrative in which independent thought is treated as inherently suspect or externally controlled.

Hezbollah - A Shia Islamist militant group and political party based in Lebanon, created and sustained by Iran’s IRGC. It has fought multiple wars against Israel and maintains a large arsenal of rockets aimed at Israeli civilians. Hezbollah functions as both a Lebanese political actor and a forward-deployed Iranian proxy force dedicated to Israel’s elimination.

Holocaust inversion - The rhetorical device of equating Israelis or Zionists with Nazis and Palestinians with Holocaust victims. It inverts historical reality and morality, often serving as a tool within the genocide libel. The source document identifies it as a key element of contemporary antizionist discourse.

Houthis - A Shia Islamist militant group (Ansar Allah) that controls large parts of Yemen. Backed and armed by Iran’s IRGC, the Houthis have launched repeated missile and drone attacks on Israel and have attacked international shipping in the Red Sea in support of Hamas. They represent the expansion of Iranian-led antizionist warfare into the Arabian Peninsula.

Hyena laugh react - Mocking or derisive online reactions (e.g., laughing emojis or comments) to expressions of Jewish trauma, concerns about antisemitism, or Israel-related suffering. It is seen as a form of dehumanization or minimization.

Internalized antizionism - The adoption of antizionist frameworks or self-criticism by some Jews, often involving distancing from Israel, performative shame, or acceptance of the “antizionist gaze.” The source document discusses this as a harmful internalization of external hostility.

Inverted red triangle - A symbol originating in some contexts as a Hamas targeting graphic in attack videos (used to mark Israeli military targets). It has been adopted in protests and online content, sometimes linked to support for violent resistance. It also carries historical associations with Nazi concentration camp markings for political prisoners.

IRGC - The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Iran’s elite ideological military force. It operates the Quds Force, which funds, arms, and directs proxy militias including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis in their campaigns against Israel. The IRGC openly promotes apocalyptic, eliminationist antizionism as official state policy.

Israel Derangement Syndrome - A term describing an irrational, obsessive, and evidence-resistant hostility toward Israel that overrides normal standards of reasoning, consistency, and proportionality. It typically involves the automatic presumption of Israeli guilt, the inversion of victim and perpetrator roles, and the application of unique moral standards to Israel that are not applied to any other country or conflict.

“Israhell” and “Isnotreal” - Derogatory slurs created by combining “Israel” with “hell” and “not real” respectively. “Israhell” is used to portray Israel as evil, demonic, or hellish, while “Isnotreal” is used to deny Israel’s legitimacy and right to exist. Both function as crude linguistic attacks meant to delegitimize the Jewish state through wordplay rather than substantive argument.

Jewish supremacy - An accusation central to antizionist rhetoric that Israel functions as a system of Jewish ethnic or racial domination over Palestinians. It is most commonly deployed within the apartheid libel and colonizer libel, framing the Law of Return, Jewish national institutions, and security measures as expressions of supremacy rather than self-determination. The source document presents it as a modern repackaging of older anti-Jewish tropes of Jewish arrogance and exclusivism, functioning as an inversion since it is frequently advanced by movements that enforce their own forms of ethnic exclusion and rejection of Jewish equality.

Keffiyeh - A traditional Arab headdress. In antizionist activism, it is frequently worn as a symbol of Palestinian solidarity and resistance, often evoking intifada-era imagery.

Khazar Theory - A pseudohistorical claim that Ashkenazi Jews are not descendants of ancient Israelites but of the Khazar people, a Turkic group that supposedly converted to Judaism in the Middle Ages. It is used to delegitimize Jewish indigeneity to Israel by portraying Jews as European imposters with no historical connection to the land. The theory has been widely debunked by genetic and historical research but remains popular in certain antizionist and antisemitic circles.

Libelvomit - A flood or overwhelming barrage of multiple libels and accusations deployed rapidly to exhaust, overwhelm, humiliate, or destabilize an opponent rather than engage in substantive debate.

MENA antizionism - Antizionism in the Middle East and North Africa, often fused with Arab nationalism. It has historically justified the expulsion of Jewish communities from the region and is characterized in the source document as militant, confrontational, and honor-driven.

MENA exodus - The mass expulsion and flight of approximately 850,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim countries across the Middle East and North Africa following the establishment of Israel in 1948. Driven by antizionist violence, state-sponsored persecution, and mob attacks, it resulted in the near-total destruction of ancient Jewish communities in the region.

MENA exodus denial - The denial or erasure of the expulsion and flight of roughly 850,000 Jews from Arab and Muslim countries across the Middle East and North Africa after 1948. This historical ethnic cleansing of ancient Jewish communities is frequently omitted or minimized in antizionist narratives that focus exclusively on Palestinian displacement while ignoring the parallel forced departure of Jews from the region.

Munich - The 1972 massacre at the Munich Olympics, in which Palestinian terrorists from the Black September group murdered 11 Israeli athletes and coaches. It became a landmark act of antizionist terrorism that brought global attention to the targeting of Israelis and Jews.

Nakba - Arabic for "catastrophe." Refers to the 1948 war and the displacement of Palestinians. In antizionist usage, it is often presented as the sole original sin while erasing the parallel expulsion of Jews from MENA countries and the Arab rejection of partition.

Narrative meme - A viral, easily repeatable storyline or set of claims (e.g., “settler-colonial genocide”) that spreads rapidly online and shapes public perception, often bypassing detailed evidence.

Occupation - While Israel’s military control of the West Bank since 1967 constitutes an occupation under international law, antizionists frequently use the term “occupation” to refer to all of Israel, including its pre-1967 borders. This rhetorical expansion frames the entire Jewish state as inherently illegitimate rather than limiting the term to the disputed territories captured in 1967. By doing so, it blurs the distinction between Israel proper and the West Bank in order to delegitimize Israel’s existence altogether.

October 7 denial - The refusal to acknowledge the reality, scale, or nature of the Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023, in which approximately 1,200 people were murdered and over 250 taken hostage. It often involves downplaying the atrocities, claiming the events were exaggerated or fabricated, or reframing the attack as legitimate “resistance.” This form of denial is widespread in antizionist discourse and serves to erase Jewish victimhood.

October 7 rape denial - The specific denial or minimization of the systematic sexual violence and rape carried out by Hamas during the October 7, 2023 attack. Despite extensive evidence from survivor testimonies, forensic reports, video documentation, and investigations, many activists and commentators have dismissed these crimes as unproven or Israeli propaganda. It functions as a targeted form of atrocity denial within broader 10/7 denial.

Palestinianism - An ideological framework that constructs Palestinian national identity largely in opposition to Israel and Zionism. It typically centers perpetual victimhood, the rejection of Jewish self-determination, and the elevation of “resistance” as a core value, while often downplaying or denying Jewish historical and indigenous ties to the land.

Pay-for-slay - The Palestinian Authority’s official policy of paying monthly salaries and financial benefits to terrorists imprisoned in Israel and to the families of terrorists killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis. These stipends, which have consumed a significant portion of the PA budget for years, serve as direct financial incentives for violence. The practice is routinely minimized or denied in antizionist discourse while the same voices accuse Israel of systemic aggression and “genocide.”

Pinkwashing - The accusation that Israel promotes LGBTQ+ rights to distract from its treatment of Palestinians. Widely used in intersectional antizionist activism.

Red hand pin - A symbol featuring a red hand, derived from the widely circulated image of a Palestinian man raising his blood-covered hands after participating in the 2000 Ramallah lynching of two Israeli reservists. The pin is worn by some antizionist activists and public figures as a sign of support for “resistance,” effectively glorifying violence and murder against Israelis and Jews.

“Resistance” - A term used in antizionist discourse to describe acts of terrorism, violence, or attacks against Israelis and Jews, framing them as legitimate struggle rather than targeting civilians.

Right of return - The Palestinian demand that millions of descendants of 1948 refugees (and their descendants) be granted the right to return to what is now Israel. Critics argue that this demand is not primarily about individual justice or compensation, but is designed to demographically eliminate Israel as a Jewish state through mass immigration.

Right-wing antizionism - A strain of opposition to Israel and Zionism rooted in right-wing nationalist, isolationist, or paleoconservative perspectives rather than left-wing postcolonial ideology. It typically criticizes US military aid to Israel, opposes American involvement in Middle East conflicts, and accuses “Zionists” or neocons of dragging the United States into foreign wars. Tucker Carlson has been a prominent platform for this viewpoint, often framing Israel and its American supporters as detrimental to US interests while sometimes invoking conspiratorial themes about Jewish influence.

Settler-colonial theory - An academic framework that analyzes certain societies as settler colonies whose logic is the elimination or replacement of indigenous populations. When applied to Israel by antizionists, it portrays Jews as foreign European settlers with no legitimate claim to the land. The source document critiques this application as historically inverted, noting that Jews are an indigenous people returning to their ancestral homeland after centuries of exile and persecution, unlike classic settler-colonial models.

“Settler” (slur) - In antizionist discourse, “settler” is commonly used as a slur to delegitimize Jews living in Israel, especially those in the West Bank. It portrays them as foreign colonizers with no legitimate connection to the land, regardless of birthplace or generational presence. The term functions as a core element of the colonizer libel, reducing Israeli civilians to symbols of illegitimate occupation rather than recognizing Jewish indigeneity and historical ties to the region.

Settler-colonial theory - An academic framework that analyzes certain societies as settler colonies whose logic is the elimination or replacement of indigenous populations. When applied to Israel by antizionists, it portrays Jews as foreign European settlers with no legitimate claim to the land. The source document critiques this application as historically inverted, noting that Jews are an indigenous people returning to their ancestral homeland after centuries of exile and persecution, unlike classic settler-colonial models.

Soviet antizionism - State-sponsored antizionism in the Soviet Union, especially post-1967, which framed Zionism as racism, imperialism, or fascism through “Zionology” propaganda. It influenced global discourse and included campaigns equating Zionists with Nazis. The source document describes it as doctrinal, bureaucratic, and instrumental.

Soviet exodus - The large-scale emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union, primarily between the 1970s and early 1990s. Triggered by decades of Soviet antizionism, cultural suppression, and the refusenik movement, it allowed over a million Jews to leave for Israel and other countries after years of state-sponsored discrimination and harassment.

Spiritually Israeli - A derogatory slur used to mock Jews or supporters of Israel as culturally shallow, inauthentic, or spiritually empty. It implies that connection to Israel or Jewish national identity produces soulless, materialistic, or culturally vapid people. The term appears in antizionist discourse to delegitimize both Israeli society and diaspora Jews who identify with the Jewish state.

“Statelet” - A derogatory term used to belittle Israel by referring to it as a small, insignificant, or artificial mini-state. The word implies that Israel is not a legitimate, full-fledged country but rather a temporary or illegitimate political construct. It is frequently used in antizionist discourse (often alongside “Zionist entity”) to delegitimize Israel’s sovereignty and right to exist.

Third Worldism - An ideological worldview that divides the globe into Western imperialists and oppressed “Third World” nations, often romanticizing anti-colonial struggles. In antizionist discourse, it frames Israel as an extension of Western imperialism and Palestinians as part of a global liberation movement against it. This binary lens frequently ignores local histories, Jewish indigeneity, and the agency of Arab and Muslim actors.

Token Jew - A Jewish individual selectively highlighted or platformed by antizionist groups, activists, or institutions to provide an appearance of Jewish legitimacy or diversity to their cause. The term critiques the use of such individuals as symbolic cover, suggesting their inclusion serves to deflect accusations of antisemitism rather than reflect broad Jewish consensus.

UN 1975 “Zionism is racism” resolution - United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379, adopted on November 10, 1975, which declared that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination.” It was a major diplomatic victory for Soviet and Arab bloc efforts to delegitimize Israel and Zionism. The resolution was revoked in 1991 by UNGA Resolution 46/86 following the end of the Cold War and shifting international dynamics.

Watermelon - A fruit used as a symbol in antizionist and pro-Palestinian activism because its colors (green rind, white flesh, red interior, black seeds) match those of the Palestinian flag. It is frequently displayed, worn, or posted as a substitute or coded symbol for Palestine, especially in environments where the actual Palestinian flag may be restricted, censored, or moderated. The watermelon has become a common visual shorthand in protests, social media, and merchandise.

Western antizionism - Contemporary antizionism in Europe and North America, often expressed through academic settler-colonial theory, antiracism frameworks, and progressive activism. The source document characterizes it as performative, moralizing, symbolic, and redemptive in tone.

Westsplaining - A term associated with Einat Wilf that describes the tendency of Western leftists and progressives to condescendingly explain the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to Israelis and Jews. It critiques the habit of imposing Western postcolonial frameworks (such as settler-colonialism) onto the conflict while ignoring Jewish history, indigeneity, and agency.

White-coding / hyperwhite trope - The practice in antizionist discourse of portraying Jews and Israelis as “white,” “hyper-white,” or privileged European colonizers. This enables the colonizer libel and accusations of Jewish supremacy by recasting Jewish national self-determination through contemporary racial hierarchies. It functions as the mirror image of classical antisemitism, which typically coded Jews as non-white racial outsiders or infiltrators.

Yevsektsiya - The Jewish Section of the Soviet Communist Party (1918–1930), made up of Jewish Bolsheviks who were tasked with destroying traditional Jewish religious, cultural, and national life. The Yevsektsiya was often more aggressive than non-Jewish communists in suppressing Zionism, Hebrew, Jewish education, and religious institutions, as its members sought to prove their loyalty to the Bolshevik regime. It functioned as one of the earliest organized instruments of Soviet antizionism.

“Zio” - A shortened pejorative slur derived from “Zionist,” frequently used as a coded or direct attack that can function as a proxy for antisemitic targeting.

“Zionazi” - A compound slur merging “Zionist” with “Nazi,” explicitly invoking Holocaust inversion to equate support for Israel with Nazism.

“Zionist” - In antizionist discourse, it is often deployed as a slur or marker to justify harassment, exclusion, or violence against individuals so labeled, extending beyond Israelis to diaspora Jews.

“Zionist entity” - A derogatory term used to refer to Israel while deliberately denying its legitimacy as a sovereign state. By calling it an “entity” instead of a country or nation, the phrase frames Israel as an artificial, temporary, or illegitimate political construct. It is commonly used in Arab, Islamist, and antizionist discourse to avoid recognizing Israel’s right to exist.

“Zionist Occupied Government” (ZOG) - A far-right conspiracy theory claiming that Jews/Zionists secretly control Western governments. While more associated with explicit antisemitism, it sometimes overlaps with right-wing antizionism.

“ZioKaren” - A derogatory slur combining “Zio” (a shortened pejorative for “Zionist,” often used as a coded attack on Jews) with “Karen” (a stereotype of an entitled, complaining, or privileged white woman). It is deployed online to mock or attack women perceived as outspoken in support of Israel or against antizionism, blending antisemitic coding with gendered and class-based insult.