From Zionism from the Standpoint of its Victims, taken from the book The Question of Palestine by Edward Said and available on JSTOR if you have an account or are in college:
The task of criticism, or, to put it another way, the role of critical conciousness in such cases is to be able to make distinctions, to produce differences where at present there are none. To write critically about Zionism in Palestine has therefore never meant, and does not mean now, being anti-Semitic; conversely, the struggle for Palestinian rights and self-determination does not mean support for the Saudi royal family, nor the antiquated and oppressive state strutures of most of the Arab nations.
One must admit, however, that all liberals and even most “radicals” have been unable to overcome the Zionism habit of equating anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Any well-meaning person can thus oppose South African or American racism and at the same time tacitly support Zionist racial discrimination against non-Jews in Palestine. The almost total absence of any handily avaiable historical knowledge from non-Zionist source, the dissemination by the media of malicious simplications (eg Jews vs. Arabs), the cynical opportunism of various Zionist pressure groups, the tendency endemic to university intellectuals uncritically to repeat cant phrases and political cliches, the fear of treading upon the highly sensitive terrain of what Jews did to their victims, in an age of genocidal extermination of Jews–all this contributes to the dulling, regulated enforcement of almost unanimous support for Israel.
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