Short answer: theoretically yes, but there are exceptions…

A slightly longer one: Not at all, but statistically most often they are used in the same way to mean the same thing.

Now for a more full answer… a guy in a YouTube comment asked me “If Zionism isn’t Judaism, why is Congress passing laws saying it is, laws now passed and, on the books, saying that anti-Zionism is anti Semitism? Looks like Jews want them to be one and the same.” - And here’s my reply:

This is the middle east, so of course it’s even more complicated than that. I’ll try to give a very compressed answer here, it’s missing a lot of nuance.

First, I’m a humanist, I want no one person to die or suffer. This is not a Utopia so I’d like to have Hamas’ operatives stripped of a few freedoms, i.e. put in jail, for their crimes, However I don’t think their subjects (That’s civilians in dictatorship-speak) should suffer for their wrongdoings.

Once in a while I answer some random person online and it ends up so long it’s worth making a whole post about. This is in response to a Bernie Sanders fanboy that was devastated with his stance on the ceasefire question. Bernie in Jewish, has visited Israel a few times but as far as I gathered, he is not identifying as a Zionist. However he IS a humanist, and therefore his many fans (I suppose mostly self proclaimed young gen Z self-proclaimed socialists) are appalled by his support for the IDF to continue ploughing into Gaza and snuffing out all Ḥamas combatants. The guy actually said Bernie “made him cry” in the replies to this post by Norman Finkelstein, a holocaust survivors’ son who criticizes Israel’s claim for territories. Here’s my answer more or less:

English translation follows below. You are welcome to add your thoughts below in the comments.

את ההספד הזה כתבה ברובו אחותי ענת והוספתי לו בעצם מעט מאוד:

נגמר, אבא כבר לא סובל. אנחנו עצובים ושבורים, אבל מרגישים הקלה בשבילו.

יש מכם שהכירו אותו יותר ופחות. הוא היה אדם עם מאגרים עצומים של ידע מרתק, בהמון נושאים, ובפרט כל דבר שקשור לארץ ישראל, דתות, תרבויות, גיאולוגיה וארכיאולוגיה. מדריך תיירים עם מעריצים (ומעריצות) בכל העולם, אוהב לבשל ולאכול אוכל טוב, מתעד נלהב בכל סוגי המצלמות, מעריך גאדג’טים מסור, נהג-נווט אלוף, וכח העל שלו היה מציאת־חניות-בדיוק-ממול, והכל עם המון הומור אינטיליגנטי ומשחקי מילים. חלק מהדברים עברו אלינו בירושה בצורה כזאת או אחרת, וחלק פשוט העשירו את חיינו ויצרו חוויות משותפות נפלאות וזכרונות נעימים. בעיקר הוא היה אבא אוהב, מחבק ומלטף עם ידיים מופלאות שהעלימו כל כאב.

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