Calling anti-Zionism fake

 One actually existing form of uncalled for antisemitism is claiming those Jews who call themselves (and meet the standard I am about to describe) anti-Zionist are fake.  Many do this, including Gilad Atzmon, who calls Tony Greenstein a fake anti-Zionist simply because he is Jewish and won't call himself an 'ex-Jew' like Atzmon has.

This suggests Jews are all liars, they know they can go to Israel whenever they want (actually they can't if they have a social media history of anti-Zionism), so they're all really closet Zionists.  That is anti-semitism.

I have absolutely no doubt that Tony is sincere, and I feel similar about many organization including Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).  JVP had not started as an anti-Zionist organization, but when they declared themselves one in 2019 it cost them membership and support.  They were very sincere.

But there is a standard, a standard that people like Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein don't meet (they've never actually said they were anti-Zionist either).  And that standard is this.  If you believe there needs to be a 'Jewish state,' or that it is useless to think past the existence of one, you are not anti-Zionist.

Anti-Zionists do not believe in the Two State Solution, that is a concept from Liberal Zionism.  Chomsky and Finkelstein are best classified as Liberal Zionists.

Zionism was not something all Jews believed in the beginning. From 1890 until around 1960 most Jews in the world were either non-Zionist or anti-Zionist.  The exceptions were more heavily concentrated among the wealthier Jews.  Then because of the Holocaust and a PR blitz which included Fiddler on the Roof, Zionism won the hearts and minds of most Jews.

Jews are not all bankers, media moguls, and top government officials.  Many are workers and Jews were leaders in labor organizing, including the Jewish Bund (which opposed Zionism).  More Jews have been workers than super wealthy people, and they were concerned about the masses including but not exclusively themselves.  Jews have been historically identified with the left in politics (once again, except those at the top).

But inexorably Zionism has dragged many Jews--who are the wealthiest ethnicity overall in the USA--to the right.  That is what happens when you become part of an imperial project.  Richer and righter.

But still, there are once again increasingly more legitimate Jewish anti-Zionists and it is antisemitic to say they are fake.  There are still many Jewish socialists, communists, anarchists, and anti-Zionists.