Anti-Zionist extremism mirrors violent Arab ideologies, stripping Jews of rights, safety, history, and humanity.
No one should feign surprise when New York City’s Park East Synagogue is targeted by so-called “anti-Zionists.” Fear-mongering against Jewish worship is not an accident of their ideology — it is its destination.
At the core of anti-Zionism is a simple but monstrous premise: Jews have no rights. Not the right to pray at Judaism’s holiest site, not the right to self-determination, not even the right to exist. When a Jew whispers, “The Lord is my Shepherd” on the Temple Mount, anti-Zionists shout that this is a crime worthy of massacre. So of course they extend this hatred to synagogues across America — in New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, and beyond — using the same tired lie: that any connection to Israel strips Jews of basic human protections.
Anti-Zionism denies the Jewish people their nation, their identity, their history, their trauma — and ultimately, their lives. Under this worldview, a Jewish child born in his grandparents’ home becomes a violator of “international law” simply for being born Jewish on the wrong side of a fabricated line.
This twisted thinking was on full display when Zohran Mamdani’s press secretary attacked Park East Synagogue for a nonexistent “international law violation,” while gently “discouraging” extremists openly calling for Jews to be expelled from America. According to anti-Zionists, Jews have no right to safety, no right to earn a living, no right to avoid violence. The UN’s anti-Israel bloc has built entire legal structures to deny Israel the right to defend the lives of Jewish children.
Figures like Francesca Albanese go even further, denying that Jewish babies have the right not to be kidnapped or murdered — a grotesque stance justified only by the fact that these babies were born Jewish. The same ideology drove activists to tear down posters of abducted children, insisting that Jewish suffering must remain unseen.
And when Jewish students at Columbia University were hunted with chants demanding Hamas “murder the Jews,” the world saw the truth: anti-Zionists do not grant Jews the right to study, speak, or even breathe safely.
In Western nations, this ideology manifests in frightening ways:
• Anti-Zionist doctors in the UK refusing Jewish patients.
• American institutions denying Jews the right to defend themselves.
• Attempts to silence Jews in politics using classic antisemitic conspiracy theories.
Jews are denied the right to mourn their dead — from the Holocaust to October 7. They are denied the right to demand the release of hostages. They are denied peaceful worship, education, and daily life.
Anti-Zionism is not activism. It is the modern reincarnation of an old hatred.
Just as Jim Crow stripped rights from Black Americans and apartheid targeted South Africans, anti-Zionism seeks to return Jews to a world where they were rightless, voiceless, and vulnerable.
The attacks on synagogues and Jewish children are not “fringe consequences.”
They are the inevitable outcome of an ideology that marks one people — and only one — as undeserving of human rights.
