Anti-Zionist Hates Assumption He Antisemitic Just Because Anti-Zionism Antisemitic

“I have no problem with Jews. My problem is with Jews who try to make trouble by claiming Jews have the same rights as other nations.”

New York, July 29 – An activist opposed to the existence of Israel as a Jewish state resents that people automatically conclude he hates Jews based solely on the fact that opposition to Jewish sovereignty perforce indicates hatred for Jews.

Wata Dumfuq, 22, of Brooklyn Heights, voiced his exasperation today (Monday) at the phenomenon in which his hate for Israel translates in the popular consciousness into hate for the people for whom Israel represents a refuge and a reestablishment of political independence in their ancestral homeland after thousands of years of exile.

“I’m tired of that assumption,” he stated in an interview. “I don’t see how voicing my opposition to Jewish sovereignty when I never voice opposition to the sovereignty of any other group somehow makes me an antisemite. I have no problem with Jews. My problem is with Jews who try to make trouble by claiming Jews have the same rights as other nations.”

“Besides, Jews aren’t even a ‘nation’ but a religious group,” he continued. “And saying that doesn’t make me anti-Jewish, even though denying any group’s right to self-define would normally indicate prejudice against that group. I mean, you should see how angry I get when Zionists point to evidence that the Palestinian people is an invention of the last fifty or so years, defined only by the desire to destroy Israel. How dare they deny peoplehood to anyone? But Jews are different. That doesn’t make me an antisemite.”

“And don’t get me started on the whole ‘double standard’ canard,” he added, his volume and vehemence increasing. “You can’t call me antisemitic for treating the Jewish state differently from all other states and demanding behavior of Israel that I demand of no other country. First of all, that’s a violation of my right to self-define, and I don’t want to self-define as a Jew-hater. And second of all, if Jews don’t want to be treated differently, why do they insist on always being different from everyone around them? If they want me to stop calling out their barbaric behavior toward the Palestinians, they should be like everyone else around them, whose barbaric behavior is part of their indigenous culture – and you’ll never never hear me calling that out. It would be racist. Jews should realize that.”

“Also,” he concluded, “the notion that holding Jews collectively responsible for Israel’s behavior is antisemitic is patently absurd. There’s no other way to pressure Israel to change its behavior than yelling at Jews everywhere else in the world, because Jews control the media and government and banks and everything, so there’s no alternative.”

“Did I say Jews? I meant Zionists. Yeah.”

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