GLOBAL DECLARATION: ANTIZIONISM IS JEW-HATRED
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Recognizing that hatred of Jews has manifested across civilizations through different vocabularies, frameworks, and ideological systems; affirming that antijudaism, antisemitism, and antizionism are historically interconnected expressions of the same underlying phenomenon of Jew-hatred; acknowledging that the modern world has witnessed the rapid spread of antizionism as a moral, political, and ideological worldview that targets Israel and Jews collectively through the demonization of Israel, Jewish peoplehood, and self-determination.
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The Declaration & Commitment
The Jewish people have, across millennia, been subjected to distinct and historically documented forms of group-based hatred. These have unfolded in identifiable eras — antijudaism, antisemitism, and antizionism — each marked by its own ideological frameworks, libels, and discriminatory practices.
Antizionism is the latest mutation of the demonization project that defines all forms of Jew-hatred. It emerged as a state-sponsored ideology in the Soviet Union and was later disseminated globally through international organizations, academic institutions, non-governmental bodies, and digital networks. Through its entanglement with Nazi ideology, Arab nationalist movements, and Islamist ideological movements, antizionism has developed into a systemic form of racism, disinformation, and delegitimation directed at the Jewish people, Israel, Israelis, and their supporters.
In this respect, the declaration stands in intellectual continuity with the foundational contributions of Natan Sharansky’s 3-D Test and the IHRA definition, as well as the efforts of many organizations that combat antisemitism and antizionism, while seeking to extend their insights to meet the challenges of the new mutation.
Antizionism meets the criteria of a hate movement under contemporary legal, sociological, and human-rights frameworks by
1. Designating Jews and the Jewish nation (Israel), individually and collectively, as
a threat to the moral order;
2. Assigning collective guilt;
3. Promoting disinformation intended to demonize the target population; and
4. Normalizing hostility, exclusion, and violence toward Jews and Israel.
It also functions as a form of national-origin discrimination by denying Jews their status as an indigenous people and by delegitimizing their lawful right to national self-determination.
Antizionism is not only a threat to Israel and the Jewish people. Like all forms of Jew-hatred, it endangers freedom, democracy, tolerance, and civic order. By weaponizing moral language, it corrodes free speech, undermines democratic institutions and human-rights frameworks by dividing societies into rigid hierarchies of oppressor and oppressed, an expression of the identity-based radical progressive ideological framework.
But antizionism is not the only expression of Jew-hatred. Classical antisemitism, whose roots trace back to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fabricated antisemitic text falsely alleging a Jewish conspiracy for global domination, is likewise obsessed with Jews and power. On the political left, this obsession appears through the oppressor–oppressed binary, in which Israel and Jews are cast as oppressors. On the political right, the same fixation reemerges as a conspiracy theory: Jews and Israel are accused of manipulating governments, destabilizing world order, and controlling global affairs.
We call upon all organizations, academic institutions, synagogues, community bodies, interfaith partners, civil society organizations, and public officials to endorse this Declaration. By endorsing this Declaration, signatories commit to recognizing antizionism as a form of Jew-hatred within their institutional frameworks; advancing accurate education on the three eras of Jew-hatred and the mechanisms of libel-based demonization; aligning policies and practices to protect Jewish individuals and communities, and securing legal and institutional recognition of antizionism as hate-based misconduct essential to legal clarity, institutional accountability, and the safety and dignity of the Jewish people, thereby preventing further violence and discrimination.
As an institution, we therefore commit to:
1. Recognizing antizionism as a form of Jew-hatred in our policies, training and public communication
a. Acknowledge that antizionist libels such as, but not limited to, the colonizer libel, genocide libel, as well as the libels of apartheid, ethnostate, ethnic cleansing, Zionazi and “Zionism is racism,” libels each constitute acts of hatred of Jewish people and Israelis.b. Naming antizionism accurately is essential for moral clarity, for the development of consistent institutional policy, and for the protection of Jews and Israelis from harm.
c. Recognize that criticism of Israeli policy that does not demonize Israel or Jews, using Sharansky’s 3-D Test, is not Jew-hatred.
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Terminological accuracy by adopting the correct language “antizionism” (without a hyphen) in all institutional documents, policies, reports, educational materials, and public communications. We recognize that:
a. The hyphenated form (“anti-Zionism”) incorrectly frames the phenomenon as a policy position or legitimate political disagreement;
b. The unhyphenated term “antizionism” identifies it correctly as an ideology and hate movement, structurally continuous with antijudaism and antisemitism; and
c. Accordingly, we commit to using the precise term “antizionism” consistently, to ensure conceptual clarity and alignment with contemporary scholarship and legal analysis.
3. Rejecting all forms of antizionist stigmatization and demonization within academic, cultural, civic and professional spaces. Acknowledging that antizionist ideology manifests as harassment, exclusion (i.e. purging Zionists), censorship and intimidation of Israelis and Jews in academic, professional, cultural, civic, diplomatic and interfaith spaces. The demand that Jews or Israelis dissociate from, condemn or apologize for Israel as a precondition for inclusion is discriminatory and violates fundamental human rights norms. Erasure and denial of Jewish peoplehood, history, of historic and contemporary anti-Jewish oppression is unacceptable in any form. Education against antizionist tropes must be ongoing and intentional for the safety and wellbeing of Jews, Israelis and their supporters.
4. Ensuring that Jewish identity is understood in its fullness, including the central bond between the Jewish people and Israel as a matter of peoplehood, not politics, and that this identity is safeguarded within our community, such as denying Jews and Israelis the right to self-determination, national identity, indigeneity, or sovereignty, rights afforded to all other peoples, is discriminatory and constitutes a form of ethnic and religious oppression.
5. Opposing all forms of ideological coercion that pressure Jews and Israelis to renounce their history, identity or peoplehood.
6. Providing sustained and proactive education, training and historical literacy to teachers, faculty, staff, media, leadership and community members regarding the nature and mechanisms of antizionism; its ideological frameworks, narratives, and tactics; the dangers antizionism poses to Jewish safety and democratic societies; and the practical tools, strategies, and competencies required to identify and challenge it effectively.
7. Standing in solidarity with Jews and Israelis worldwide against the rise of antizionist hatred and its associated libels in media, education, public policy and public discourse.
8. Antizionism undermines human rights discourse. We recognize that the misuse of human rights concepts to demonize Israel and Jews erodes the credibility of human rights frameworks globally. A worldview that targets a single people as uniquely evil undercuts universal principles and invites the instrumentalization of humanitarian language for political or ideological ends.
By signing this Declaration, we
● Affirm the inherent dignity and equal rights of Israel and the Jewish people;
● Reject the ideological systems that cast Israel and Jews as global villains; and,
● Commit to protecting our community from the prejudices and disinformation that
define the contemporary antizionist worldview.
Declaration created on behalf of Stop Antizionism
Signed by:
Dr. Naya Lekht, Founder Stop Antizionism
Natasha H. Pein, Executive Director Stop Antizionism
PIE4ALL – Pinnacle Integrity in Education for All
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