"I Have No Problem with Jews its Just Israeli-Zionism"

Many critics of Israel claim that they are not anti-Semites, they are just anti-Zionist.

I agree, many critics of Israel are not anti-Semites, but that admission is not synonymous with accepting the premise that Israeli Zionism is somehow separate from being a Jew, it is not.

Yes I know that in Israel itself there is a sizable minority of the Orthodox Jews who oppose Israel's right to exist, but that doesn't make them right. Indeed many "anti-Zionists" like Ahmadinejad, Hamas, and a plethora of Left-wing professors like to point out that they have no problem with Jews It's just the existence of a Zionist state called Israel, and then have photo-ops with then Neturay-Karta (anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews) to affirm this distinction.

However that distinction is superficial. Every Jew who prays the traditional prayers of Judaism, mentions Zion over 100 times a day! This does not mean that all Jews support Israel or the current secular nature of Israel. At the same time even the most anti-Zionist Jews pray for the return of Jews to the WHOLE OF ISRAEL, known as Zion. Thus if they are hugging Iran and Hamas now, they believe that they will be mortal enemies tomorrow. To be an observant Jew is to support Israel now Or later but it is to support Israel.

The point is that while you can criticize Israel and not be an anti-Semite, it is only if you accept the right of Israel to continue as a Jewish majority state , i.e. Zionism, whether religious or secular (After all, even in Biblical times Israel fluctuated in its states observance).

Those that attack the legitimacy of a Jewish State in Israel because it based on Zionism, from this perspective, are expressing anti semetic sentiments. Not because it is that only place where Jews can be assured that they will not be oppressed. Not because it is a place where Jews shine. But because to be an observant Jew is to a zionist.