Let’s talk about the various “antis”.

Is being “antiparty” also anti-Semitic? It could be. In fact, it COULD be a code word for anti-Semitism.

But let’s not digress. Those who opposed the communist Russian empire were known as anti-Soviets. Not anti-Russian or racist or neo-Nazis but anti-Soviets. While anti-Sovietism would send one to the GULAG if in Russia, the free-world’s anti-Soviets were quite free to state their opposition to the Soviet regime. Anti-Sovietism meant opposition to one totalitarian form of state and it had anti-statism and anti-totalitarianism aspects.

Then we have the anti-Americans. These are really anti-US individuals who oppose the United States for whatever reason. They are not, by default neo-Nazis, racists or ‘enablers of terror’. Many of today’s anti-Americans are probably dedicated anti-statists or libertarians and, of course, anti-imperialists, global-warmists, peaceniks and so on.

Somehow, though, those who oppose Israel, and the range of opposition could be anything from objecting to the current Israel government’s behavior to wishing that the state of Israel is eliminated MUST be anti-Semites, neo-Nazis, racists and, in most cases also anti-American but not necessarily anti-Soviets.

How could the opposing of a state or its policies become a racial issue? The most likely explanation is that the supporters of that state are mainly concerned with ‘race’ themselves – if we agree to call the Jewish ethnicity a ‘race’. They seem to support that state because they view the state as the well-armed instrument for advancing certain race-centric objectives. If that is true - and it probably is true, note that Israel is often affectionately called ‘the Jewish state’ (Germany is not called ‘the Aryan state’) - then it should be fair to view most supporters of the state of Israel as racists-Semitists, not worse but not better than any other variety of racist.

There’s plenty of anti-US, anti-Iran, anti-Iraq, anti-French, anti-Russian, anti-Yugoslavia, anti-Albanian, anti-Mexican (oh, strike that), anti-South African (strike that too), anti Zimbabwe and so on and almost none of the above stands is ever viewed as racist or neo-Nazi or anti-Semitic. The opposing of Israel is automatically labeled as ‘racist’ and anti-Semitic by the supporters of the State of Israel.

And, re-visiting the initial question: ‘is being Antiparty also anti-Semitic’? The answer is YES, if one of the parties the Antiparty person opposes is ‘a friend of Israel’. In the case of the United States, both ‘major’ or ‘mainstream’ parties are faithful (and somewhat fearful) friends of the state of Israel. Therefore, any American Antiparty person is by definition a racist, neo-Nazi anti-Semite.