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Now that antisemitism has morphed to mean anti-Israel, classic antisemitism — the Jew-hating kind — has been relegated and has lost much of its descriptive potency.

In other words, the fact that the Zionists and their supporters have successfully changed the meaning of the word means that whenever classic-antisemitism is mentioned in the context of a classic-antisemitic incident, and not, say, by expression of support for Palestine, its impact is naturally diminished.

This is yet another example of how the Zionists, through the primacy of their colonial project over the basic interests of the Jewish diaspora, are effectively aligned with classic antisemites and supportive of their antisemitic cause. This is directly derived from the inherent classic-antisemitism of the Zionists themselves, as epitomised through the concept of the *Negation of the Diaspora*.

Or, as the somewhat tongue-in-cheek saying goes, *is a guy in a pub saying that all the Jews should leave and go to Israel, a Zionist, an antisemite, or both?*

Anyone who reads the history of the early Zionists, including during the Jewish holocaust, can see that classic-antisemitism is a significant undercurrent of Zionism and has resulted in actual intentional harm to Jewish communities in the diaspora to further the Zionist colonial project.

One example of the many is the attacks on the Jewish community in Iraq orchestrated and executed by Zionist agents to facilitate their removal to Israel. There are plenty of others.

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