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I take your point to be that hostility toward Israelis right now is about opposition to Israeli government actions in Gaza, not about their ethnicity or religion. If that’s what you mean, I get the distinction you’re making.
I’m not saying every action taken against something Israeli is motivated by antisemitism. But it’s also undeniable that some people in the anti-Israel/pro-Palestine crowd are antisemites, and they hide those views behind the broader narrative. Acts of indiscriminate hostility toward anything connected to Israel - even if not motivated by antisemitism - look and function exactly the same as if they were. People should consider the optics, even if their intentions are clear to themselves. That’s the specific distinction I’m talking about, and it’s the one I haven’t seen you address yet.
As I already said, the comment that you went to look for in order to make all this speech, was in a post about how a graffiti was a "barbaric act" or even a "terrorist act" and how ironic it is that they call anything antisemitism when it's very well known that this is not antisemitism but anti-genocide actions.
After that, I said that calling everything antisemitism just makes people start thinking that when everything is antisemitism, nothing is antisemitism.
Last, as I said, people know full well that antisemitism and antizionism are NOT the same thing. What happened here is not antisemitism, it's antizionism. And considering that zionists are just fascist in a different flavour, I consider it morally right to be antizionist.