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Antisemitism was (still fundamentally is) systemic in Europe because of the formation of capitalist nation-states.

The nation-state seeks to establish a difference between people based on borders, in order to prevent solidarity between workers who share a way of life, and even sometimes a language, customs, a religion, despite being born across borders. It will use anything to both unite the people inside its border and antigonize the ones beyond, especially racism.

Jewish people, as a disaspora, as well as any nomadic people like the Romani, fundamentally challenge the nation state because they are united beyond borders. Therefore they became prime targets for persecution. People literally said shit like "they can't be trusted because they have no country, no state"

So the origin of anti-Semitism is that Europeans though that the Jews being stateless was bad. So when the Europeans are trying to "give" Jewish people a state, they are in fact trying to "fix" them. Zionism is an attempt by the anti-semites to make Jewish people conform to their worldview. Zionism wants to get rid of the cosmopolitans, it's a project of sending the Jews "back home" so they leave Europe and stop being a threat to the oppressive capitalist regimes. Zionism wants to erase what makes Jewish people special and progressive. Zionism is the death of Jewishness.

Zionists conflate Jewishness and the existence of the political state of Israel. To the point that any Jew that does not support Israel as a state or the actions of Israel is considered not a real Jew or a kind of race traitor.

This controlling of the thoughts and actions of Jews by zionists who may even be christian themselves is very much antisemetic

A state is not owed the allegience of a people based on their ancestry or belief

Zionism has an interest in making the rest of the world unsafe for Jews, as that's one of its main justifications for Israel's existence.

The best time to ask foundational questions is day one, the second best time is right now.

Zionism is basically "What if Hitler, the nazis, and centuries of conspiracy theories were right about Jews? They cannot be trusted and they are not true members of our country. We should deport them somewhere else."

It is an ideology of the Imperial Core that seeks to export antisemitism elsewhere, rather than eliminate antisemitism within their borders. They are not concerned about eliminating antisemitism at all. Of course, this is all a cover for Israel's real purpose, which is to provide foreign militaries a foothold in the Middle East so they don't have to pull off an Operation Overlord every time they want to invade.

Read The Empty Wagon by Yaacov Shapiro (Or listen to his podcast) to answer the second question. This is not exactly how he would describe it: One way to conceptualize it is that the Zionist project, being a predominantly Western-Christian obsession, is just the most recent of the Crusades, and this time they deputized a bunch of Jews to be the point of the spear. The most basic way it is antisemitic is that it endangers more Jews than any other thing in the world today.

The us media supports it because Israel is a long-term us project centered around oil, trade routes, and military and surveillance technology and the us media is controlled by companies that have a huge interest in such things.

Dual loyalty but actually if you point out that this is an anti semetic trope and that Jews shouldn't be loyal to a settler colonial state in the Middle East actually it's you that's the anti semite

Zionism is an ethno-supremacists political movement. It is founded on the idea that racism is correct and that non-jews will always hate and kill Jewish people. Zionism gets to decide who is and who isn't Jewish. Its proponents actively engage in stoking racial prejudice against Jewish people in order to convince Jewish people to immigrate to israel. In some cases Zionists go so far as doing terror against Jewish people and blaming it on anti-Semitic groups.

Zionism conflates the nation of israel with all people of Jewish heritage and religion treating them as a monolith which zionists are the only voice for. Zionism is harsh to any people who do not agree with it but it is especially harsh in silencing and persecuting Jewish people who do not agree with it. It is openly racist towards non white Jewish people (look up the forced sterilization of African Jews) and denies that Palestinians are descended from the people of iron age Israel (as much or more so than european Jews.)

This nation state claims to represent an entire race + religion and speak for all its members therein, goes on to do genocides, then says it's okay because their chosen people want/need it. It's deliberately trying to implicate those people, worldwide, as complicit with mass murder and war crimes.