The Yevsektsiya were Jews. They blamed “Zionists” and traditional Jews for alienating Soviet society. They believed that if Jews behaved properly and complied with Communism, the regime would treat them well. When they were no longer useful, the Yevsektsiya were disbanded. Their members were executed or sent to labor camps. The Antizionist League of Iraq were Jews too. They thought Zionists were the problem. They believed that if Jews in Iraq distanced themselves from the idea of a Jewish state, all the hatred would fade away. They were wrong. The League was dissolved, its leaders imprisoned, and Iraq’s Jews were slaughtered in the Farhud and driven out. Nobody asked whether they were Zionists before burning their homes or stabbing them in the streets. A hundred years ago, Baghdad was more Jewish than New York City is today. Now there are fewer than ten Jews in the entire country. Trying to prove that you’re one of the “good Jews” never works. The same story played out in Germany. Jews there were the most assimilated in the world — cultured, loyal, and proud Germans. They thought the “bad Jews” were the Eastern European immigrants. The Association of German National Jews, who sought to align themselves with the Nazi Party, was outlawed. They were deported and burned along with the rest of European Jewry. Today, there are fewer Jews in all of Europe than there are Israeli Arabs in Israel. So much for Europe lecturing Israel about tolerance. Once a society starts stigmatizing Jews — or even just a subset of Jews — the writing is on the wall. Assimilation and appeasement do not work. Explaining ourselves kindly and hoping to be accepted as the “good ones” does not work. We are living in a dangerous time for Jews. The United States and perhaps Argentina are the last places where Jews are not broadly stigmatized. But that is changing. In a 2023 Harvard-Harris poll, two-thirds of Americans aged 18 to 24 said “Jews as a class are oppressors and should be treated that way.” That is the future of public opinion. We have no choice but to name antizionism for what it is. And we must do it now. Because if “anti-Zionism” were really about Bibi, it wouldn’t have existed before Israel was founded. And yet Jews were being slaughtered under that same banner for centuries. The truth is simple. Antizionism is a hate movement with hundreds of years of Jewish blood on its hands. It is systemic. It is global. It is deadly. Kind explanations and compliance have never saved us. Only clarity, courage, and truth have.