Editing Zionism (section)

=== Anti-Zionism or antisemitism ===
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Critics of anti-Zionism have argued that opposition to Zionism can be hard to distinguish from antisemitism,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://jcpa.org/phas/phas-wistrich-f04.htm |title=Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism |website=Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs |date=Fall 2004 |access-date=November 17, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121115102337/http://jcpa.org/phas/phas-wistrich-f04.htm |archive-date=November 15, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=Kenneth L. |last=Marcus |title=Anti-Zionism as Racism: Campus Anti-Semitism and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 |journal=William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal |volume=15 |issue=3 |pages=837–891 |year=2007}}</ref> and that criticism of Israel may be used as an excuse to express viewpoints that might otherwise be considered antisemitic.{{sfn|Temko|2006}}{{sfn|Kaplan|Small|2006|p=}}{{pn|date=March 2025}}

Anti-Zionist writers such as [[Noam Chomsky]], [[Norman Finkelstein]], [[Michael Marder]], and [[Tariq Ali]] have argued that the characterization of anti-Zionism as antisemitic obscures legitimate [[criticism of Israel]]'s policies and actions, and that it is used to stifle legitimate criticism of Israel.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5104 |title=ZNet – Beyond Chutzpah |access-date=June 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090625165331/http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/5104 |archive-date=June 25, 2009}}</ref>