[ars]

It's not about what can be, it's about what actually is.

People who are not antisemitic typically say "but you can criticize Israel", and they are right, and they don't understand.

The trouble is that in the real world people who criticize Israel and not antisemitic are vanishingly rare.

It's like "black lives matter", people are not not racist find it very racist and respond "all lives matter", and they don't get it. People who experience racism, explain "black lives matter" doesn't imply anything about other people.

In the real world you almost never find people who criticize Israel who are not also antisemitic.

For example, in this very thread "level1" tries to criticize Israel with a factually false accusation, checking his post history finds him singling out Jews. This is pretty typical.

[coolgeek]

> The trouble is that in the real world people who criticize Israel and not antisemitic are vanishingly rare.

Where is your evidence for this?

By evidence, I mean

  1) empirical, not anecdotal
  2) from a non-partisan source

[level1]

> For example, in this very thread "level1" tries to criticize Israel with a factually false accusation, checking his post history finds him singling out Jews. This is pretty typical.

To be clear I am referring to this - but then I think you'll criticize all of HRW as anti-semitic as well right? Come one and deal with reality.

https://www.hrw.org/report/2021/04/27/threshold-crossed/isra...

Most people are past the point of debating whether it is apartheid or not.

Most Israelis believe that Israel should give preferential rights to Jews:

"Most Israeli Jews (79%) say Jews deserve preferential treatment in Israel."

Also 50% support transfer of Arabs out of the state:

"The survey asked Jews whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree with the statement that “Arabs should be expelled or transferred from Israel.” Roughly half of Israeli Jews strongly agree (21%) or agree (27%), while a similar share disagree (29%) or strongly disagree (17%).3"

Both are from: https://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/08/israels-religiously-divi...