I want to start this column by making clear my abhorrence of Hamas’s barbaric October 7th murder of 1,200 Israelis. And by stating that Israel does have a right to defend itself, though by proportionate means. That needs to be said because it is perilous, in the current atmosphere, to attempt a critique of the propaganda war that is raging around defining the limits of acceptable speech on this topic. Specifically, anti-Semitism and, for the left particularly, whether anti-Zionism is inherently anti-Semitic. Zionism began as the secular nationalist movement in the 19th century in response to widespread anti-Semitism to promote...