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>>anigbr+(OP)
I have no skin in this game.

What I have seen is a confusion (perhaps intentional) between anti-semitism, and protesting Israel’s behavior since the Hamas attack in October.

Criticizing Israel’s response is not anti-Semitism- it is literally just criticizing the response.

>>Scubab+2n
The question is, what is so special about the Israeli/Palestine conflict that leads to these outsized protests? I do not recollect a similar response to the treatment of ISIS or the war in Yemen, even though both had the unconditional support of the US war machine. Even if the left could be absolved of antisemitism, the resistance groups it is aligning itself with clearly can not.

>>incrud+jq
Actions of Western democracies are usually subject to greater scrutiny. Indeed, the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism allowed for this: it says that it is antisemitism to hold Israel to a higher standard than other democracies - not than other nations altogether.

>>ajb+au
ISIS was defeated by a coalition including western democracies. Well over a thousand civilians died by US bombs alone.

>>incrud+Aw
The fact that it wasn't Americans on the ground but other Iraqis is a gigantic difference.

>>sudosy+RJ
Oh, and there I thought the masses of dead civilians from air strikes were the point of contention. My bad.

>>incrud+2Q
When you try to argue the point that it's to liberate them, it's more credible when it's people of the same ethnic group and country, not people who are also stealing your land and kidnapping your people at the same time.