Finkelstein on anti-Zionism vs. anti-Semitism

Doctor Norman Finkelstein addressed the question of whether anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism in a Feb 16 talk sponsored by the Princeton Committee on Palestine. Finkelstein has been studying this issue since his time as a PhD candidate at Princeton, where his dissertation focused on the theory of Zionism. He explained that Zionism developed at the end of the 19th century to address two concerns: the physical survival of Jews, and the spiritual survival of Judaism in an increasingly secular world and amid growing assimilation. Physical survival became more urgent beginning in the 1930s.