Munk Debate: Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism Douglas Murray Vs Mehdi Hasan (June, 17 2024)
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Munk Debate on Anti-Zionism
On Monday June 17th we convened at Roy Thomson Hall for our spring 2024 debate.
Motion: Be it Resolved, anti-Zionism is antisemitism
About the debate:
Hate crimes against Jews are surging globally as the war in Gaza continues into its eighth month. This reality has brought new urgency to a decades-old debate about whether anti-Zionism – the rejection of statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland – is being used as a cover for antisemitism or hatred against Jews as a people.
Critics of Zionism argue that it is a supremacist and exclusionary ideology that unjustly privileges the lives and rights of Jews over non-Jewish inhabitants of Israel. The charge that anti-Zionism is antisemitism is a smokescreen to cloak Israel from much needed international scrutiny and hold it to account for its actions.
Nonsense, say Zionists. A key feature of antisemitism is applying one standard for Jews, and another for everyone else. Zionism is nothing more than the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their historic lands. This is the same right that has been claimed by countless other nations and groups for centuries.
Those who say that the Jewish state alone is illegitimate are not simply anti-Zionist but anti-Semitic and bear responsibility for rising hate crimes against Jews worldwide
The Debaters
Arguing for the resolution is award winning journalist, best-selling author, and former Munk Debater Douglas Murray. His debate partner will be Natasha Hausdorff, an international law expert and legal commentator on antisemitism.
Opposing the resolution is Mehdi Hasan. Mehdi is a best-selling author, former MSNBC anchor, and the CEO and editor-in-chief of the new media company Zeteo. He will be joined by the award winning Israeli broadcaster and Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy.
“If you are zoning in on Israel and not bothered by everything else in the world, you’re not motivated by anything other than being antisemitic”
– DOUGLAS MURRAY
“What does it mean to say to the Palestinian people that you’re either a Zionist, you subscribe to the ideology of your oppressor, or you’re a racist?”
– MEHDI HASAN
“There is no difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism and there must be a zero tolerance for this phenomenon.”
– NATASHA HAUSDORFF
“Zionism is an ideology. It is not a religion and it is not immoral to stand against it.”
– GIDEON LEVY
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