The Jewish world is fighting antizionism in a room the movement never enters. A defector’s map of outside, and the case that it’s gentile’s work, not a Jewish burden.

This past week the Jewish world went to war with antizionism on half a dozen fronts. A royal commission in Melbourne spent days taking testimony. In Dublin, a community split over a training session billed as “Anti-Zionism as the New Antisemitism.” Scholars have built a movement just to define the term.

In May, hundreds gathered in Toronto for the first-ever World Symposium Against Antizionism, organized by Dr. Naya Lekht, whose Three-Era’s helps explain this hatred. We learn that it’s not antisemitism expressed differently, it’s a form of Jew-hatred on its own. Several hundred rabbis have signed their warnings after Mamdani referred to AIPAC as “monsters.” Some signed after his boycott of New York’s Israel Day Parade—the first mayor to skip it since the march began in 1965.

It’s serious, important work being done. And it carries a flaw no amount of effort will fix. If you pay attention, you may notice nearly everyone is Jewish. The movement they’re fighting is almost entirely not.

That’s the whole problem, in one image. The people holding the line are the hatred’s targets, not its authors. The authors are not in the building, cannot be reached from inside, and are not listening to anything said. A fight waged entirely by its victims is a fight with the door bolted from the wrong side.

I can describe how the people outside that door think, because I was one of them. I came up on the academic left, in the seminars of Boston University and other cathedrals of the enlightened. Where Israel was the........

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