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Far left activists who spend most of their time excusing and dismissing antisemitism are trying to get @LahavHarkov booted from twitter and fired from JPost. They will always see real journalists and those who actually oppose antisemitism as a threat. Lahav has the right enemies. 
What you’re seeing in the “fire Lahav” chorus is the rage of the hypocrite. Folks on the left absolutely losing it when their definition of incitement is applied across the board, and thus to their own actions. The right is far from immune to falling into the same trap.
It’s also the gross desire to exempt Israelis from what they say is happening to Jews. The murder of Jews simply for living in their historic homeland is treated as legitimate by definition. But Jews don’t compartmentalize this way: we object to the murder of Jews anywhere.
It’s also why the undeniable, explicit policy of Palestinian incitement is not treated as the crisis it really is.
Obviously if you care even a bit about antisemitic incitement—and this is not a binary choice, you can oppose it in all its forms—the Palestinian Authority would be an area of prime focus.
Again, the right is far from free of such hypocrisy. But the accusation that Lahav is fomenting violence against Mehdi Hasan by calling out incitement *while he’s leveling that exact charge at Republicans* is one comprehensive act of hypocrisy.
