Yes, This “Anti-Zionism” Is Antisemitic, by Aaron Post – 12 October 2026

A large banner on the May 2026 “Unite the Kingdom” rally, a far-right demonstration called by Tommy Robinson, read “End Zionist occupation of Britain.” The slogan expresses an old theme of the neo-Nazi far right: a form of Jewish power, labelled “Zionism”, has captured or occupied governments around the world, in pursuit of a project of global domination. In this case, it is linked to the “Great Replacement Theory”, a far-right conspiracy theory alleging Jews (“Zionists”) are sponsoring mass immigration to “white” countries.

Where does this leave the oft-repeated truism that “anti-Zionism is not antisemitism”? Of course, anti-Zionism is not necessarily antisemitic. But no-one looking at a banner on a far-right protest saying “End Zionist occupation of Britain” could deny that some anti-Zionisms are antisemitic.

A few months later, in July 2026, a protest was organised in Westminster under the slogan “End Zionist control of UK Parliament”, almost identical to the slogan on the banner on the far-right protest. The organisers this time were not Tommy Robinson supporters, but activists from “Palestine Pulse”, part of a new “Anti-Zionist Movement” launched in February this year.

The “Great Replacement Theory” element may be absent, but the political narrative is the same. Palestine Pulse and the neo-Nazis on a Tommy Robinson march only differ, it seems, in what they believe the “Zionists” are using their “control” of Britain to do.

The Anti-Zionist Movement was co-founded by David Miller, a former professor now employed by Iranian state broadcaster Press TV, and Rameh Aladwan, a former doctor turned podcaster and social media influencer. Aladwan has publicly supported Nick Griffin, the former leader of the fascist British National Party. When challenged, she told her interlocutor to “Get a grip”, because “We are past these silly divisions. We are quite literally being screwed over by the same lobby group.”

Miller spends much of his time cheerleading, in astonishingly sycophantic terms, the Iranian regime. Currently, he is paid to do it; one suspects he would do it for free anyway. He sees “Zionism” and “Zionists” everywhere, accusing everyone from Owen Jones, New York mayor Zohran Mamdani, and even the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, of being Zionists, in hoc to Zionists, or “shilling for Zionists”. To him, Zionism is a singular, compact force, engaged in a drive for world domination. He variously says he wants to “end”, “dismantle”, and “destroy” the “three to four thousand” Zionist organisations he says are active in Britain, and are “supporting genocide” on a “daily basis”.

Most mainstream Jewish communal bodies are nominally “Zionist” in some way. They apply a wide range of political meanings to that label. For some, it indicates little more than a loose sense of Jewish peoplehood and an affinity with the Jewish population of Israel. Within Israel itself, many of those putting their bodies on the line to stand with Palestinians against state and settler terror also identify as “Zionists”.

To Miller, there is no difference between those “Zionists”, British Jews whose “Zionism” is even looser, and the actual rulers of Israel. They are all just “Zionists”, who, according to Miller, “have a single loyalty, and that’s to ensuring total global hegemony for the Jewish Empire.” Miller says they “must be removed from the Levant by force.” To achieve this, “Iran will have to fight.” Given his Anti-Zionist Movement believes Britain is also under Zionist “control”, perhaps he looks to Iran to remove “Zionists” from Britain by force, too. Miller also believes that Jews are “over-represented in positions of cultural, economic, and political power” and that “Jewish supremacism” is an almost transhistorical problem. He says “300 rabbis” were responsible for “occupying Palestine in 1211”.

He was listed as an endorser of the “Zionism is racism” resolution recently adopted by the Green Party of England and Wales in a pamphlet published by the resolution’s authors. In April 2026, Lubna Speitan, the co-author of the text and its main spokesperson in the Green Party, appeared in a social-media video promoting the Anti-Zionist Movement.

It is part of Miller’s own conspiracist method to treat any form of political association or incidental adjacency as if they represent directed, fixed forms of networking, making those involved part of a singular force. That should be avoided here. Undoubtedly, many, probably most, of the supporters of the Green Party resolution do not share Miller’s views.

But the organisers of the initiative did not have to list him as an endorser in their own pamphlet. Speitan, the public face of the motion, did not have to affiliate with and promote his initiative. This is enough to indicate, at the very least, some degree of political alignment.

Of course, the “Zionism is racism” resolution does not contain the full programme of the Anti-Zionist Movement. It does not refer to “Zionist control” of the UK. But Miller and others in the AZM are surely not planning to let the matter rest here. Why would they? They are political activists, engaged in a project to establish hegemony for their ideas, and lever wider organisations into acting on them. Having succeeded in winning a mainstream political party, with considerable parliamentary and municipal representation, to a policy that contains some of their ideas, they are surely intending to organise to promote other elements of their programme.

Green Party activists, and those on the wider left who have welcomed the “Zionism is racism” resolution, should reflect on the political coalition they are being drawn into. It is one with at least some prominent figures who see no issue allying with neo-Nazis against “Zionists”, and actively cheerlead the imperialism of the clerical-fascist regime in Iran.

Some supporters of the motion have dismissed Jewish fears that it could lead to antisemitic violence, dogmatically insisting that it is merely “anti-Zionist”, not “antisemitic”. But those fears were not allayed by the fact that an amendment seeking to guarantee Jewish Greens would not face sanction within the party for membership of nominally-Zionist community institutions was rejected. When one of the motion’s prominent supporters is an apologist for, and paid employee of, the Iranian state, which has been connected to several acts of antisemitic violence this year, it is hardly surprising some Jews are worried about the implications.

If you truly believe your anti-Zionism is not antisemitic, you have a responsibility to openly confront, and politically break from, those on your own “side” whose anti-Zionism clearly is.

This article first appeared in Workers’ Liberty.

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