Anti-Zionists Exposed

This has been on my mind ever since those reports of Ron Paul rallies erupting into Zionist-bashing sessions. One of the first 9/11 conspiracy theories out of the fever-riddled brains of those nuts who backed the Paul campaign had to do with the rumor that Israeli citizens in the World Trade Center were warned not to come into work the day of the attack. And there's a general feeling among the nation's tinfoil hat wearers that Israel somehow has its evil tentacles in the buttholes of our government leaders. Now the State Department has put together a report detailing the transformation of anti-Zionism into a new kind of antisemitism. Criticism of Israel's national policies has turned into a blanket portrayal of the Israeli state as some kind of hand-wringing mastermind of world affairs. It's fine and appropriate to criticize Israel's occupation of the West Bank or anything else the government does, but when people begin using anti-Zionism as a front for their own cartoonish vision of Jews as the secret rulers of the world, they suddenly turn from being smart contrarians to racist nutbags. More details here.