Our Mission
StopAntizionism.org exists to expose and confront antizionism as a modern expression of anti-Jewish hate. We educate, support, and equip individuals and communities to recognize and respond to it—across politics, media, academia, and activism.
Why This Site Exists
Antizionism is often framed as a "political position," but its genealogies, rhetoric, and effects reveal it as a continuation of antisemitic thought and practice.
From Soviet propaganda to postcolonial regimes in the Middle East and North Africa, and into the discourse of contemporary Western activism, antizionism reproduces enduring antisemitic tropes—delegitimizing Jewish peoplehood, attributing malign global influence, and reanimating conspiratorial logics that have long threatened Jewish life.
This site seeks to trace antizionism’s ideological lineage, illuminate its material consequences, and provide readers with the historical grounding and conceptual tools necessary to name, confront, and marginalize it in public discourse and political culture.
What We Mean by Antizionism
Antizionism is the belief that Jews—alone among the world’s peoples—have no right to collective self-determination in their ancestral homeland, and that the existence of Israel is a moral and political offense. It is not a critique of state policy, but a rejection of Jewish sovereignty itself.
Antizionism operates with two core aims: first, to dismantle the State of Israel; second, to isolate, discredit, and stigmatize Jewish communities in the diaspora who affirm its legitimacy. In both cases, it functions as a political vehicle for antisemitism—delegitimizing Jewish identity, denying Jewish peoplehood, and reanimating conspiratorial and exclusionary logics.
Its presence can be identified through its tactics, and its symbolic vocabulary. This site exists to make those forms legible—and to challenge them.
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Why We Don't Focus on Zionism or Israel
This project does not seek to define Zionism or to describe the State of Israel. That is an intentional decision. There exists no shortage of institutions, texts, and cultural machinery—Jewish and otherwise—dedicated to those tasks. The historical, ideological, and emotional terrain around both terms is vast, fragmented, and often polemical. We take no interest in adjudicating between these meanings, nor in adding to their discursive weight. Readers are fully entitled to bring their own working definitions, whether nationalist, post-nationalist, religious, secular, critical, or otherwise. That conversation is important elsewhere. It is not the conversation here.
Our concern is with antizionism as a global formation—its logics, consequences, and operations across contexts. To center Zionism or Israel in this analysis is to recenter Jewish identity performance, to return again to the self-explanation loop that Jewish discourse so often falls into: a kind of reflexive moral accounting that functions more to soothe the Jewish speaker than to confront structural hostility. This project resists that turn. We are not here to justify, reframe, or rehabilitate Zionism. We are here to name antizionism as a socially legitimized mode of exclusion, one that no longer requires coherence or consistency to operate. Any analysis that begins with “what Zionism really means” is already off track. We begin elsewhere.
Relatedly, we advocate for dropping the hyphen in antizionism.
Who We Are
StopAntizionism.org is a volunteer-led educational initiative. We are researchers, educators, and advocates committed to truth, clarity, and action.
This site is non-partisan, non-profit, and committed to respectful but direct engagement with one of the most dangerous ideologies of our time.