This is a stunning display of intellectual dishonesty. It serially suggests equivalency between those who oppose Israel's policy and those who espouse hate, implies a tie between those with rational critiques and those with irrational hostility.
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It suggests that criticism of Israel is due to anti-semitism if critics somehow fail in those criticisms to denounce every other act of wrong-doing on the planet at the same time. And of course, it suggests that anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism simply because...
...some anti-Semites also frame their repulsive hatred in criticisms of Israel. It is a classic example of dishonest argument, contortionist in the way it twists and weaves half-truths, distortions and sophistry into what appears to be an argument but is really a tantrum.
The truth remains: Many many good Jews and those who love and like Jews are anti-Zionist. Many who love the idea of Israel are deeply opposed to the current Israeli regime and its actions. Anti-Semitism is deplorable. So is apartheid and serial violation of human rights.
In fact, opposing the current Israeli regime and its policies is the moral obligation of those who hold Jewish values just as if you love democracy and the US you must oppose Trumpism and the anti-democratic GOP.
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