When is it antisemitic to criticize Israel? Antisemitism signifies hatred of Jews and the ways that hatred is perpetuated through age-old conspiracy theories and their modern variants. But what about when that hatred is expressed through rhetoric about the Jewish state? Is anti-Zionism necessarily antisemitism? Those questions have divided American Jews in recent years — and are…
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