December 17, 2025
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#6 Antizionism Is Not Antisemitism
Is it just a new name for antisemitism, or is it a different ideology entirely?
Jesse Brown
Host & Publisher
Caleb Thompson
Audio Editor

Is hatred against Jews calming down, or is it back for good? Is it correct to consider antizionism the new name of antisemitism, or is it a different ideology entirely? Finally, is antizionism actually pro-Palestinian?

 

(To donate funding so we can complete this series, email jesse@canadaland.com

 

Credits:

 This series is a co-production of Canadaland and The Canadian Jewish News

Made possible by the generous support of The Bissell Family Foundation, George Burger, Dan Debow, Gideon Hayden, Daniel Klass, Norman Levine, Nanette Okun, Leslie Scanlon, Marjorie Skolnik, The York School, Lee Zentner, and others. 

 

Written and Reported by Jesse Brown

Research and Story Editing by Kate Minsky

Original Music by Socalled with Fred Wesley

Sound Design, Mixing and Mastering by Caleb Thompson

Editorial Input from Michael Fraiman 

 

Sources:

Hamilton Jewish Film Festival cancelled (link)

Play about Israeli dropped in Vancouver and Victoria (link)

Jewish artist has work pulled from Vancouver gallery (link)

Ashkenaz Festival’s difficult year (link)

Miriam Libicki illustrates her experience being banned from a Comics Festival (link)

Montreal Pride Parade bans Jewish group (link)

Movement Against Antizionism, co-founded by Adam Louis Klein (link)

Huiai, the nonviolence group founded by Ali Abu Awaad (link)

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