Stop Calling Them “Activists”

Stop Calling Them “Activists”

We need to stop lending legitimacy to hate.

They’re not “activists.” They’re not “protestors.” These are masked mobs marching not for justice or peace, but for hatred. These are hate marches, not demonstrations. They are agitators, not advocates. And we do ourselves and truth no favors when we use language that sanitizes their intent.

Because let’s be clear: when people march under banners calling for the elimination of the world’s only Jewish state, when they celebrate the murder and abduction of Jews, when they chant for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea,” that is not activism. That is antizionism, and antizionism is simply antisemitism wearing a mask.

This ideology isn’t new. We’ve seen it before.

We’ve seen mobs shouting for “purity” and “justice” who, when you strip away the slogans, are demanding the erasure of Jews. The parallels to Nazism aren’t rhetorical; they’re historical. The imagery, the chants, the dehumanization, it’s all there, just rebranded for a modern audience that wants to believe hatred can be virtuous if it’s wrapped in the language of “liberation.”

And we must call it out wherever it hides, on the Left and the Right.

Antizionism has no political loyalty. On the Left, it disguises itself in academic jargon and “social justice” slogans. On the Right, it hides behind conspiracy theories and “globalist” tropes. The message, however, is identical: Jews don’t belong. Israel shouldn’t exist.

Both are rooted in the same ancient poison. Both lead to the same place: violence, exclusion, and fear.

Language matters.

Words shape the way society perceives moral boundaries. When we call antizionist agitators “activists,” we move that boundary a little further into the darkness. We normalize hate by dressing it in the clothes of conscience.

So start naming things honestly.

A mob that terrorizes Jewish students on campus is not a “student group.”

A crowd that blocks streets screaming for “intifada” is not a “peace rally.”

These are hate movements, descendants of the same ideology that cheered in the 1930s when Jewish shops were burned and synagogues destroyed.

Antizionism is the modern Nazism.

It seeks the same outcome—Jewish erasure—just with different tools and hashtags.

We can’t afford to be polite about it anymore.

Not when our streets are filled with swastikas disguised as “solidarity.”

Not when Jewish kids have to hide their Stars of David to feel safe walking to class.

Not when “Never Again” echoes through time as both a promise and a warning.

Because history doesn’t just repeat itself.

It rhymes loudly and dangerously.

And right now, the chorus sounds far too familiar.