Palestinian rights advocates are denouncing a congressional resolution that equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism in the US, calling it a “dangerous” measure that aims to curb free speech and distract from Israeli aggression in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

The symbolic resolution was framed as an effort to reject the “drastic rise of anti-Semitism in the US and around the world”.

But it contained language saying that the House “clearly and firmly states that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism”. It also condemned the slogan “From the River to the Sea”, which rights advocates understand to be an aspirational call for equality in historic Palestine.

In the US, Palestinian rights supporters have long rejected conflations of Zionism with Judaism, noting that many Jewish Americans identify as anti-Zionist.

The advocacy group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) was also quick to denounce the congressional measure.

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