[Adapted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively on VDARE.com]

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, giving the federal Department of Education the power to cut off funding to schools and colleges that tolerate “Antisemitism”—as defined in the Act.

From the account given in The Washington Post, it seems that anti-Zionism could count as Antisemitism under the law [House passes Antisemitism bill over complaints from First Amendment advocates, by Abigail Hauslohner, May 4, 2024]

This stuff soon gets knotty. Antisemitism, anti-Zionism: is there really any difference?

There sure is. Anti-Zionism has two main divisions:

Those two branches both subdivide.

A Gentile anti-Zionist may be an antisemite who doesn’t like seeing Jews get their way in anything; or he may have no issue with Jews per se—may even be a philosemite and a friend of Israel—but can’t see why we, the United States, should have any official policy of support towards a small country six thousand miles away.

Thus on April 23rd, a week before the House passed the Antisemitism Awareness Act, the House and Senate both passed a spending bill authorizing, among much else,

About $26 billion for supporting Israel and providing humanitarian relief for people in Gaza. About $4 billion of that would be dedicated to replenishing Israel’s missile defense systems. More than $9 billion of the total would go toward humanitarian assistance in Gaza amid the Israel-Hamas war.

A look at what’s in the $95 billion foreign aid package passed by Congress, AP, April 23, 2024

An American nationalist, even a well-wisher of Israel, might call that pointless governmental extravagance. He might ask:

“Aren’t there enough wealthy Jews in the world to pony up $4 billion for Israel’s defense? And there are surely enough wealthy Arabs to keep the welfare queens of Gaza fed, clothed, and sheltered. Why should American taxpayers be involved?”

Jewish anti-Zionists divide into the religious and the secular.

Religious Jewish anti-Zionists belong to a splinter sect of Orthodox Judaism called Neturei Karta. They believe it goes against God’s will to establish a Jewish state until the Messiah arrives—which, according to them, he so far hasn’t. Neturei Karta has, the ADL tells us “a strong base of support in the U.S. ”

Here at McGill's anti-Israel campus tent protest, ultra orthodox jews, Neturei Karta, stomp on the flag of