Zionism is support of a Jewish homeland in Zion - the Land of Israel.

The culmination millenia of Jewish persecution in the first half of the 20th century, with extermination of European Jewry in the Holocaust, and complete ethnic cleansing of thriving Jewish communities during the Jewish expulsion from the Muslim world, demonstrated the need for a safe haven for Jews.

Anti-Zionism is not criticism of any particular Israeli action or policy, but a rejection of the right of Jews for refuge and self-determination in a Jewish state.

Denying the right of Jews to a homeland selectively singles out the Jewish people as a nation not deserving of a state, despite relentless persecution throughout history.

Furthermore, anti-Zionism puts millions of Israeli Jews at extreme risk of ethnic cleansing. Hamas’s charter explicitly calls for the slaughter of Jews, and Jews have been ethnically cleansed from every Muslim-majority state, with only 4,600 (0.50%) Jews currently remaining in 16 Muslim countries, down from a population of 965,000 in 1948.