Victims of Antizionism
Antizionism claims to be a movement for justice. In truth, it is a campaign of violence and harm—one that has created victims across every side of the conflict and far beyond it. Its legacy is generations of suffering. The list of those it has hurt is long and diverse:
Israelis (Jewish and non-Jewish)
Antizionism’s most direct targets are Israelis—Jews and non-Jews alike—whose very existence in a sovereign nation is treated as illegitimate. The aim is destruction: the denial of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. Antizionism rationalizes rocket fire on civilians, the murder of families in their homes, and the kidnapping of children as “resistance.” It dehumanizes every Israeli citizen, Jewish or Arab, as a colonial occupier—no matter their background, politics, or dreams for peace.
This ideology makes no space for coexistence, democracy, or diversity. Israeli Arabs, Druze, Bedouins, and others who live in Israel and participate in its civic life are erased or vilified. For antizionists, their voices do not fit the narrative—and are often met with scorn or silence.
Jews in the Diaspora
For Jews outside Israel, antizionism is often experienced as a loyalty test, a silencing force, or a direct threat. Jews are told that their safety is “political,” their grief is “inconvenient,” and their belonging is “conditional.” Many have been stalked, doxxed, boycotted, ridiculed, or fired—not for anything they’ve done, but for not disavowing Israel. Students are harassed, synagogues are attacked, Jewish businesses are vandalized, and public events are shut down under the pretense of “protest."
Worse, Jews are frequently told that unless they renounce Israel, they cannot be trusted—as if Zionism, the movement for Jewish safety and self-determination, is a stain rather than a source of survival. This is scapegoating, and it mirrors the same dynamics Jews have faced for centuries.
Palestinians
Antizionism claims to speak for Palestinians. In truth, it betrays them.
For nearly a century, Palestinian suffering has been exploited—used as a pawn in a war to destroy Israel rather than build a Palestinian future. From the Arab League's rejection of partition in 1947, to the pogroms of the 1930s, to the Six-Day War in 1967, antizionist ideology has led to cycles of war, displacement, and statelessness.
Palestinians have died not only in wars with Israel, but in the service of regimes and movements—from Nasser’s pan-Arabism to Assad’s Syria, from Soviet-backed terror to Iran-backed Islamism—that had little interest in Palestinian welfare and every interest in weaponizing their suffering. Over 100,000 Palestinians have died as a result of antizionist war and terror, driven by a refusal to accept the Jewish state's existence.
Antizionism has fostered endless rejectionism, encouraging Palestinians to resist compromise at any cost, to glorify martyrdom over negotiation, and to remain in permanent refugee status under UNRWA rather than pursue real integration or statehood through UNHCR. The result has been generations raised in poverty, trauma, and despair.
Even today, Hamas—the ultimate expression of antizionist Islamism—holds Palestinians hostage in Gaza, ruling through violence, repression, and fanaticism. Civil war, poverty, and the blockade are all fed by an antizionist refusal to coexist with Israel. It is Palestinians who pay the highest price.
Palestinian suffering deserves real attention, honesty, and compassion. To ignore it—or to deny it in order to defend Israel—is both unethical and strategically disastrous. But it is not Israel that benefits from this suffering. It is the global antizionist movement that must answer for the century of pain it has helped manufacture and sustain.
Others
Antizionism doesn’t stop at Israel or the Jewish people. Its violence and moral contortions ripple outward, harming others as well:
Thai agricultural workers, kidnapped and murdered by Hamas in the October 7 massacre, were barely mentioned in global discourse. Their lives were treated as disposable collateral in a war justified by antizionist fervor.
Victims of other global conflicts, such as Uyghurs in China, Tigrayans in Ethiopia, or Rohingya in Myanmar, often find their suffering ignored or overshadowed by a fixation on Israel as the world’s supposed greatest offender.
Non-Jewish Zionists—Arab Israelis, Christians, secular liberals, people of conscience—have been shouted down, threatened, or attacked for standing with Israel or even acknowledging Jewish peoplehood.
Public figures, from politicians to celebrities, are bullied for what they say—or refuse to say—about Israel. Careers are threatened over a missed statement, a word of nuance, or refusal to condemn.
The antizionist campaign is about submission to a worldview where only one narrative is permitted, and moral complexity is replaced by absolute blame.