Anti-Semitism's increasingly thin and hard-to-see line

[Bonobo]

109. The misuse of the word Zionism is precisely what I am talking about.

Zionism is an anachronistic label. It was all about the right for Jews to have a homeland in the historic land of Canaan. That homeland was created. It exists.

So talk of Zionism is pointless in a way.

When I said that those who spit out the word "Zionist" are often anti-semites, it is from that perspective. That, "Zionist" is conveniently used as a stand-in for "Jew!" It just is. And it is misused.

So the whole I am a Zionist/I am an anti-Zionist thing is rather meaningless.

My point, and the point of the OP is to call out certain "tells" for who is an anti-semite and I hold firm to my belief that those who call others "Zionists" really want to say "Dirty Jew!" but they know they can't. So they use what tools they have to skirt around it.

That is my belief, that is my life experience. I am a Jew and have lived it.

So in a sense I agree that "Zionist" has come to have a bad ring to it, but it is through misuse that is the intentional result of anti-semitic feelings that already existed and resulted in that misuse.