Sanctimonious Hysteria

I have yet to come across the self-styled Anti-Zionist capable of succinctly explaining to me why their chosen creed is not just another, particularly noxious form of Antisemitism without immediately proceeding to do precisely the opposite.

The reasons for this ought to be obvious. For a start their typically urgent beliefs involve taking a stance on both Jewish civil rights and Islamist totalitarian fascism (and sometimes also on women's rights, minority rights and so on) which is wholly at odds with large sections of their otherwise cherished worldview.

For those for whom all this is little more than a form of socially-charged tribalistic cosplay, this may not matter all that much, but for those who care — genuinely care — the end result is typically a kind of sanctimonious hysteria...for they usually are aware on some levels at least of the cognitive dissonance and its unmistakable inference of bigotry, and this is simultaneously fed and partially disguised by an historical narrative spanning the spectrum from half-truths to outright lies: contortions, distortions, distractions, inversions; all present, along with an unwillingness to engage with alternative perspectives or any process of verification, such that in the end the final incompatibility they find themselves living with is that between the progressive ideal of free expression and their determination to bully all dissent into silence.