We are often asked what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say if he were alive today. The question itself is a form of avoidance. Martin Luther King Jr. already answered it. The real question is whether we are prepared to listen.

Dr. King did not speak ambiguously about antisemitism, nor did he shy away from defending the legitimacy of Israel. He understood hatred not only in its overt forms, but in the ways it disguises itself as moral critique. He recognized that bigotry often reinvents itself using the language of justice and he warned against it, especially when that language is weaponized against a single people.

That is why Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stated plainly: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism.” This was not a casual remark or a historical footnote. It was a warning rooted in lived experience about how easily prejudice reshapes itself to survive.

King understood that Zionism is the Jewish........

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