A common enough delusion...

Believing that you can be virtuously Anti-Zionist without being an antisemite is a common enough delusion these days.

It's a bit like being one of those anti-feminist blokes who insists he isn't a misogynist. Taking a committed and discriminatory stand against the aspirations of a distinct group in society to which you do not belong ought to set off alarm bells inside almost any 'progressive' head, but it frequently seems not to. 

Anti-Zionism as a set of tenets was first fabricated behind the Iron Curtain as a way for ideologically-befuddled materialist-atheists to vilify Jews in a more secular fashion. 

The key elements of the world's oldest hatred were retained, almost on a wicked trope by wicked trope basis, but crudely camouflaged so that they might appear somehow detached from the age old bigotry which had engendered them. 

The Collective Jew is recognised as a people for the purposes of this covert-racist and suppressive dogma, but simultaneously denied any of the usual positive consequences of this identity, beyond this new form of fabricated distrust leading — with near inevitability — to demonisation. 

The Anti-Zionist is like a crouton bobbing around in the soup of demented hatefulness. Sure, you might have started out all crisp and untainted, but the longer you stay there the soggier you are going to get.