Anti-Palestinian Racism

Anti-Palestinian racism is real. It exists, and it must be named. Like all forms of racism, it flattens and distorts, collapsing a people into a caricature, treating pain as propaganda, and rendering millions invisible unless useful as a symbol. It shows up in language that mocks, erases, or dehumanizes Palestinians. In declarations that deny their existence or their dignity. In the refusal to see Palestinian grief as real.

But here is the distinction we must hold: resisting a hate movement is not itself hate.

Believing in the right of Israel to exist is not racism. Being Jewish is not racism. Naming libel, exposing double standards, or grieving Jewish dead is not racism. Refusing to submit to a movement that silences, stalks, and purges Jews from public life is not racism. These are moral acts. And antizionism’s attempt to collapse them into “anti-Palestinianism” is not solidarity — it is moral blackmail.

There is a way to honor Palestinian humanity without being conscripted into a campaign of Jewish erasure. There is a way to fight racism without sacrificing truth. That is the work. That is what we insist on.

We reject anti-Palestinian racism — not to flatter our critics, but because we mean it. And we reject the cynical manipulation of that term by those who would use it to excuse hatred in another form.