10/01/2026
Five years after the January 6 attempt to overthrow election results, white supremacists, Christian nationalists and fascists continue to consolidate power, now from inside the White House. As we recall this day as an inflection point for the far-right, we recognize the role of Zionism and Christian Zionism in this web of hate and supremacy.
The alliance between Zionists and antisemites is dangerous and opportunistic. Zionism is the ideology that the Israeli government rests upon. It claims Jewish safety requires a Jewish-only nation-state. Zionists use the strategy of genocide and ethnic cleansing to ensure their goal of “maximum land, minimum Palestinians.” Antisemitism is discrimination against Jews, violence against Jews, or targeting of Jews because they are Jewish.
Antisemitic Zionists, or people who both hate Jews and love Israel, are common in right-wing movements—the same movements responsible for most tangible threats to Jewish people. Depending on their ideology, antisemitic Zionists may admire Israel as a model ethnic supremacist state, share the Islamophobic and anti-Arab positions of its government, and/or want Jews to be corralled in their own state outside of the US.
Today, real antisemitism is frequently manipulated to reinforce racism by Zionists. The truth is, if we do not understand, identify and stand up to antisemitism, we cannot stop the bad-faith use of antisemitism to promote racism. And as Christian Nationalism becomes even more mainstreamed, and as more antisemitic Zionists come to power, learning this distinction will become more necessary.
The agendas of Christian Nationalists, white supremacists, and anti-Palestinian racists and organizations has nothing to do with protecting Jewish people, and all to do with harming our intersectional movements for justice.