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Thread #67315   Message #1132793
Posted By: Nerd
10-Mar-04 - 03:15 AM
Thread Name: BS: Anti-Semitism & The Left
Subject: RE: BS: Anti-Semitism & The Left
Anti-Zionism a radical idea? Nice try. Most Americans and most of the world have been Anti-Zionist from the get-go.

Alex, one of the reasons you have not encountered anti-Semitism may simply be because it is socially frowned upon. As anti-Zionism becomes more and more permissible, anti-Semites will inevitably begin to express anti-Zionist ideas while keeping quiet about their deeper anti-Semitism. So it's very possible you've encountered real anti-semites, if not open anti-semitism. This does not mean that most anti-Zionists are also anti-Semites, but certainly most anti-semites are anti-Zionist.