Anti-Zionism functions as socially respectable cover for anti-Semitism in Anglophone politics

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

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Islam-West representation cluster: how a taboo discourse finds respectable substitute channels. Parallels how anti-Muslim rhetoric often masks itself as secular critique of ‘culture.’ — connects to: Debates over whether anti-Zionism constitutes antisemitism come in qualitative and quantitative forms. — Nasar Meer, Racialization and Religion: Race,…, 56; Anti-Zionism can serve as respectable cover for shameful prejudice.; Anti-Zionism gives anti-Semites respectable cover in the English-speaking world
• SEED: Angle: mapping the specific rhetorical ‘veils of respectability’ that let otherwise taboo prejudices circulate in liberal public spheres.