That's not true. I don't throw around the 'anti-Semitic' line. I just don't accept that anti-Zionism can exist without it. That doesn't mean you can't criticize Israel. It just means that if your thinking is that Israel has no right to exist, or if it does exist then it has no right to protect or defend itself, then somewhere in that argument you're going to get around to digging the 'I don't care if Jews die' hole.
It just means that if your thinking is that Israel has no right to exist, or if it does exist then it has no right to protect or defend itself, then somewhere in that argument you're going to get around to digging the 'I don't care if Jews die' hole.I don't buy that Zionism is racism, so I don't believe anti-Zionism to be anti-semitism.
I believe in Israel's right to exist, and believe its in our best interests to protect it. I also believe her enemies are intractibly opposed to its existence for anti-semitic reasons.
However, you could be against Zionism on purely anti-colonialist lines and escape the smear of anti-semite.