{"id":14074,"date":"2024-02-05T12:46:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T01:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rationalemagazine.com\/?p=14074"},"modified":"2024-02-05T12:51:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T01:51:36","slug":"criticism-of-israels-militarism-is-not-antisemitism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalemagazine.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/05\/criticism-of-israels-militarism-is-not-antisemitism\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticism of Israel\u2019s militarism is not antisemitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>Editor\u2019s note: If you would like to submit a letter for possible publication, please email it to editor@rationalist.com.au. See our\u00a0Publishing Guidelines.\nDear Editor,\nOn 26 May 2016, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance redefined the word \u2018Semite\u2019 to apply only to the Jewish people. The word \u2018Semite,\u2019 however, has a much broader meaning.\nPrior to this monopolisation of the word, Semite referred to numerous people throughout the Middle East who shared a common ethnicity and root language. This includes Jews, Arabs, Lebanese and others.\nTechnically you should not be called \u2018anti-Semite\u2019 for supporting the Palestinian people against Israeli aggression. More correctly, the word would be \u2018anti-Zionist.\u2019\nZionism is a 19th-century nationalist movement aimed at the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine, in an area roughly equated to the biblical Israel of Jewish mythology. The Zionists had a strong traditional belief in their right to this land.\nPrior to 1947, Palestine was populated by both Arab and Jewish people living together in relative harmony. While there had always been areas of Jewish settlement throughout Palestine, there was no Israel as such.\u00a0\nThe settler colony of Israel was established as a political solution to a displaced Jewish population after the horrors of World War II. The settlers were, on the whole, European, rather than Middle Eastern. Extreme Zionists among them, under Netanyahu, now control government.\nCurrent criticism ...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <hr style=\"width: 100%;max-width: 1000px !important;height: 5px;border-width: 0;color: red;background-color: red\" \/>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<h3><em>You're part way through this article. 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