For Westerners Trying to Figure Out Where They Stand After October 7, Understanding These Six Terms Is Paramount: Zionist, Anti-Zionist, Post-Zionist, Likudist, Anti-Likudist, and Antisemitic

The biggest problem social media discourse on the 2023 Israel-Hamas War is having is that everyone’s defining words their own way. But certain key terms have accepted definitions everyone should know.

1. Introduction

It’s true what they say: truth is the first casualty in war. And since truths are usually expressed in language, it is words that wartime partisans take aim at before anything else. And that’s just what’s happened in the 2023 Israel-Hamas War—not only in the Middle East, but also (indeed maybe even more spectacularly) in Western corporate…