We need to decolonize our understanding of antisemitism – Mondoweiss
Protest banner in London, 2018. (Photo: Jewish Voice For Labour (UK) via The Palestine Poster Project Archives) I don’t want antisemitism to be misunderstood. I don’t want Jews, Zionism and Israel to be conflated. I don’t want to be perceived as supporting an oppressive and undemocratic State, just because I’m Jewish. I don’t want to be associated with a one-dimensional interpretation of Zionism which denies another people their history and identity. I don’t want the definition of racism against me to mean another people cannot protest the racism against them. But if I supp...