The research draws several important conclusions:
➢ Antisemitism is a key motivating factor in anti-Zionist activity and it spreads like a virus within it.
➢ The concentration levels of anti-Zionists who share hard-core antisemitic ideologies registered at 64%. With Jewish activists excluded the figure was even higher at 73%.
➢ Behind the closed doors of a hidden Facebook Group, major political figures such as Jeremy Corbyn, Jenny Tonge and David Ward engage with hard-core antisemites, even while in public making emphatic denunciations of this racism.
➢ The network is large and effective.
➢ A small, but highly vocal group of Jewish anti-Zionist activists is engaged in using Jewish identity as ‘a weapon’ to deflect accusations of antisemitism.
➢ These Jewish anti-Zionists in turn teach their compatriots to insulate themselves from the charge of antisemitism by substituting the word ‘Zionist’ for ‘Jew’. They rarely (if ever) address the antisemitism itself.
➢ A key anti-Israel figure involved in the Mavi Marmara incident privately supports the Israeli version of events, stating that the Israeli soldiers were attacked before any of them discharged a weapon.
➢ Key peace activists place ideology above horrific antisemitism. There is little or no reaction to other activists sharing Holocaust Denial. If there is a reaction, it is to say, ‘do that specific activity elsewhere’, rather than ‘get out of this group’.
➢ Anti-Zionists view Zionists as ‘global manipulators’, ‘thieves’, ‘bloodsuckers’ and ‘intent on destroying the world to fulfil their own evil agenda’. It is a precise copy of antisemitism.
➢ In anti-Zionism, far-right and far-left are interchangeable.
