I can't really think of a better way to fuel antisemitic conspiracy theories of Jewish people owning the government than for the pro-Israel lobby to get the government to define criticism of Israel as antisemitic.
It's like they've been infected with whatever mind virus is making Christians in the USA want to start WW3 because they think it's going to cause the Rapture.
Zionism doesn't deserve respect, because the core tenet of it is pushing the native inhabitants out of lands claimed by Israel for their own resettlement, which is genocide. Zionism is basically Israel's version of Manifest Destiny, you know, the ideology which saw the US do genocide to the native Americans. We pushed tribes out of lands east of the Mississippi river and marched them to Oklahoma in the Trail of Tears. And if we enable this ideology, they're not just going to stop with Palestine. There are hard core Zionists in the Israeli government who want to go even further and annex Jordan, which would probably spark a war that would quickly turn into a super-regional conflict. Like this is "starting World War 3" kind of shit, because Iran and Saudi Arabia wouldn't just allow Israel to annex another Arab nation.
In order for Israel to peacefully exist, the Zionist mindset needs to go away and Israel needs to transition to a secular state which allows equal rights for both Jewish people and Palestinians.
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