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Short answer
There are around 27 Muslim countries and 15 officially Christian countries — many with religious symbols on their flags and identities rooted in faith or ethnicity. In general, human societies are organized by religion or ethnicity.
Now, no one demands that Iran, Saudi Arabia, Greece, or the Vatican be erased, renamed, or stripped of their religious character. But when it comes to Israel, the only Jewish state, where ‘Jewish’ is both a religion and a nationality — suddenly it’s unacceptable. Suddenly, national identity becomes “racism,” religious symbols become “theocracy,” and its very existence is called a problem.
If you believe singling out the one Jewish state for standards applied to no one else isn’t activism — it’s antisemitism and hypocrisy wrapped as one.
Long answer
There are around 27 Muslim countries and 15 officially Christian ones — many with religious symbols on their flags. But there is only one Jewish state — and somehow, for some, that’s one too many. From the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Hellenic Republic of Greece to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, religion and ethnicity shape national identity all over the world.
No one protests their right to exist or calls for their erasure. So why is Israel — the only Jewish state — singled out?
You don’t have to agree with every Israeli policy.
Many Israelis don’t either.
They protest government corruption, settlement expansion, and judicial overreach. They march for asylum seekers and minority rights. That’s democracy. But denying Israel’s right to exist? That’s not “criticism.” That’s antisemitism — plain and simple.
As Natan Sharansky defined it in his “3 D’s” test:
Demonization: Calling Israel “genocidal” or “Nazi” for defending itself while ignoring actual genocide and atrocities elsewhere.
Double Standards: Singling Israel out for boycotts or outrage, while excusing far worse from others.
Delegitimization: Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination — a right you grant everyone else.
We see it everywhere:
“From the river to the sea” chanted to call for Israel’s destruction.
Jewish businesses are vandalized and synagogues attacked over events in the Middle East. Israel uniquely targeted with boycotts and campus bans — while real tyrannies get a pass.This isn’t justice. It’s not activism. It’s a double standard — targeting one state and one people again and again. Selective outrage where the world’s only Jewish state is singled out as the exception.
That’s not solidarity, that’s antisemitism — repackaged, rebranded, but unmistakable.
