How an evolutionary biologist is taking the fight to the 'mutating virus' of anti-Zionism

Stephanie Spielman, an evolutionary biologist, founded Expose Antizionism Now to reframe anti-Zionism as a mutating, destructive ideology rather than a political disagreement. She argues Jewish communities must stop defending Israel and instead expose anti-Zionism's real-world outcomes, citing historical precedents like the Yevsektsiya.

Stephanie Spielman, an evolutionary biologist with a PhD in computational molecular evolution, has launched Expose Antizionism Now, a nonprofit aimed at reframing how Jewish communities confront anti-Zionism. Her central argument is that anti-Zionism is not a political disagreement but a mutating, destructive ideology that adapts to its environment. Spielman, who stepped away from academia after publishing over 30 peer-reviewed papers, argues that the Jewish community must stop endlessly defending Israel and instead expose anti-Zionism's real-world outcomes: the purging, harassing, ethnic cleansing, and murder of Jews. She traces her own awakening to the 2014 Gaza war, which she says broke her due to the distortions and lies circulating about Israel. Spielman contrasts legitimate criticism with eliminationist hostility and cites the Yevsektsiya, the Jewish section of the Soviet Communist Party, as a historical precedent for Jews being leveraged to enforce state-sponsored bigotry. The article frames her work as a strategic shift from defense to offense in combating anti-Zionism.