Disguised Jewish supremacy
If efforts to combat antisemitism are not generic, Jews are being promoted as a special class of people.
It is true that Jews have been persecuted over the centuries, party due to Christian religious groups scapegoating them supposedly for Jesus's death. Jews were often barred from certain industries and so gravitated toward the occupations they were allowed, two of them being money management and entertainment, which over the course of time have come to dominate a lot of modern culture. However in more recent times, those industries have become more ethnically diverse as each country has sought to include more of its own businesses and citizens in their local versions.
Of course, the Nazi extermination of Jews, along with almost as many other peoples they sought to eliminate, has been high in the memory of what depths humanity can sink to. So Jews do have a claim to being considered for measures to stop further discrimination from happening. But there is a whole world of peoples that have been subject to discrimination, repression and genocide, and we must be careful not to allow any one group to receive preferential treatment for basically the same discriminatory reasons.
This is different from groups that have been systemically denied resources over a long time that have meant that they are still effectively suffering the results of not being able to reach a level of opportunities that others not discriminated against have come to expect. Typical of such peoples are indigenous groups and slaves that were exploited or eliminated as part of settler-colonial takeovers of their land, as well as later efforts after their liberation to maintain suppression of them. To a large extent, Jews have succeeded in freeing themselves of much of that.
Zionism was created to find a homeland where Jews could be free to live without discrimination against them. The problem is that in focusing on Palestine as the land that they wanted, they deliberately sought to eliminate the then current occupiers of that land, with the help of Britain and later the US. In that it is an ideology of apartheid and genocide, which makes any effort to equate anti-Zionism as antisemitism fundamentally flawed as an anti-discriminatory measure as it is in itself discriminatory, purely because it is based upon preferential treatment of an ethnic group over all others.
Israel is a state governmental apparatus based upon Zionism and has implemented laws to make that ideology rule the land, so it is thus an apartheid and genocidal state. Even the apartheid South African government at the time of the boycotts against it was querying why the similarly apartheid Israel was also shunning it. Israel is actively taking actions that all fit the definition of genocide, yet because of their extensive lobbying and funding of politicians in many countries they have enabled those countries to shield it from any consequences of their actions.
One activity of supporters of Israel is to promote the IHRA non-legally binding working definition of antisemitism as: Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.
Now this might seem reasonable in itself, but not if it is given special emphasis by efforts such as using it to preferentially judge organisations and individuals over more generic wording such as: Discrimination is a certain perception of specific groups, which may be expressed as hatred toward them. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of discrimination are directed towards them or their supporters and/or their property, toward their community institutions and religious facilities.
However, it is in the examples of antisemitism given after the definition that some are problematic, not least in that many are used by Israeli politicians and citizens against Palestinians, but substituted for the word Jews
. This is where framing antidiscrimination as based solely upon one ethnic group in preference to a more generic definition automatically reduces the status of people not part of it as of secondary worth. That is, it is discrimination, which is the antithesis of what it is supposedly for.
An example is Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
While there are no genetic markers that uniquely identify a race, Israel is an ethnic supremacy endeavour and is engaged in a genocide of groups outside of that ethnicity.
The immediately next example given is Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.
This is problematic because it is not a true democracy, like many so-called democracies around the world, but that it is engaging in genocide is actively excluding an ethnic group from ever participating in that democracy. But the real issue is that Israel is currently extremely favoured by many Western nations and is allowed to be excluded from demands placed upon other nations, such as South Africa was in its apartheid days.
Despite all its objections, Israel is an apartheid settler-colonial state continuing the genocide against Palestinians as promoted by the Zionist planners from the time Ashkenazi Jews started settling in Palestine at the end of the 19th century. Just as apartheid South Africa was forced to give up its apartheid by worldwide condemnation and sanctions, the same should be done with Israel and any other nation that excludes people from equality just because they are considered unworthy.