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What Anti-Zionism Really Is
Columbia students hold a rally for Palestine on the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack, on October 7, 2024. (Alex Kent via Getty Images)
After October 7, friends called me ‘filthy Zionist.’ Longtime colleagues refused to work with me. This isn’t criticism of Israel. It’s about making Jews pariahs.
By Adam Louis-Klein
10.06.25 — Israel
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After three months in a remote Amazonian village with no internet or phone signal, I returned to a small Colombian town on October 9, 2023—still in the rainforest, but now with internet—and checked social media for the first time. The jungle was still in my ears—squawking macaws, torrential rain, the low hum of a generator—when my screen filled with ima…

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Adam Louis-Klein
Adam Louis-Klein is a PhD candidate in anthropology at McGill University and has a BA in philosophy from Yale. He writes on Jewish peoplehood, antisemitism, and anti-Zionism. AdamLouisKlein.com
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