'Hyperzionism': How Germany's conflation of antisemitism and anti-Zionism allowed a far-right return

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While Germany’s far-right won its best election results since the Second World War, politicians continued accusing anti-Zionist Jews of antisemitism In the week leading up to Germany's historic elections, a supporter of pro-Israel politician Karoline Preisler wrote that they had “experienced antisemitism up close” after being confronted by a pro-Palestine activist on the U-Bahn in Berlin. Preisler, a Free Democratic Party (FDP) politician and lawyer known for her provocative one-woman counter-pr