Anti-Zionism can serve as respectable cover for shameful prejudice.

Evidence

It has been said before that anti-Zionism is not the same as anti-Semitism and that many anti-Zionists hold such views with the best intentions unrelated to any form of prejudice. The disagreeable fact remains that anti-Zionism is very often a cloak for vulgar anti-Semitism, for which it provides possibilities of expression and action previously lacking. Particularly in the English-speaking world, anti-Semitism has never acquired the degree of intellectual or political respectability which, at various times, it achieved in Germany and, to a lesser extent, in France, and no one with political ambitions or intellectual pretensions can openly avow it. It is an ironic achievement of Zionism to have lent it a veil of respectability. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1374 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

It would be palpably unjust to assert that all critics or opponents of Israel are moved by anti-Semitism; it would be equally mistaken to deny that anti-Zionism can on occasion pro­ vide a cloak of respectability for a prejudice which, at the present time, is not normally admitted in public by anyone with political ambitions or cultural pretensions. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1240 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Anti-communism replaced anti-Semitism as America’s acceptable prejudice outlet. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1812; Anti-Zionism serves as a respectable cover for anti-Semitism where direct prejudice is discredited; Anti-Zionism can cloak anti-Semitism unacceptable in public discourse — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1240 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Anti-Zionism serves as a respectable cover for anti-Semitism where direct prejudice is discredited #corroborates (0.95)
• Anti-Zionism can cloak anti-Semitism unacceptable in public discourse #corroborates (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1240
• Anti-Zionism gives anti-Semites respectable cover in the English-speaking world #corroborates (0.95)
• Anti-Zionism functions as socially respectable cover for anti-Semitism in Anglophone politics #corroborates (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1374