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Anti-Zionism stops pretending that it’s not just plain antisemitism

At least they’re getting open about it: “Anti-Zionists” have dropped the pretense that they love Jews and only hate Israel because they are so principled.

A meeting of the notoriously hard-woke Park Slope Food Co-op — where debates about the politics of parsley are as bitter as locally grown horseradish — took an ugly turn the other night when one speaker informed an attentive audience that the real problem in America today is “Jewish supremacism.”

We call it ugly, but many listeners burst into applause at the vile remark.

This was a debate about banning Israel-made hummus — not about Jews, Judaism or intercommunal relations.

So much for the endless lectures these last few years about how confusing anti-Zionism with antisemitism is a big mistake and unfair to the deeply moral folks who never miss a........

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