{
  "id": 20069459,
  "title": "How an evolutionary biologist is taking the fight to the 'mutating virus' of anti-Zionism",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/14/how-an-evolutionary-biologist-is-taking-the-fight-to-the-mutating",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-14T23:12:51.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Jerusalem Post",
    "slug": "jerusalem-post",
    "url": "https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-914770"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Stephanie Spielman, a computational molecular evolution expert, has left academia to combat modern anti-Israel hostility through her nonprofit, Expose Antizionism Now. Spielman argues that anti-Zionism is not merely a political disagreement, but a mutating virus of bigotry that adapts to its environment. She compares it to the Yevsektsiya, a Soviet Jewish organization that dismantled traditional Jewish life and imposed state-sponsored bigotry. Spielman believes that the Jewish community must shift from defense to exposing anti-Zionism as a destructive ideology and evaluate its real-world outcomes.",
  "summary": "DIASPORA AFFAIRS: Challenging the way Jewish communities confront anti-Israel hostility, Stephanie Spielman argues that the time has come to expose the ideology, rather than endlessly defend Israel.",
  "key_points": [
    "Stephanie Spielman, computational molecular evolution expert, leaves academia.",
    "Expose Antizionism Now fights anti-Israel hostility.",
    "Anti-Zionism likened to mutating virus of bigotry."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}