My plea to the left: treat Jews the same way you’d treat any other minority

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10. Here's my take

There is certainly a way for people to be extremely critical of Israeli government policies, or of Israel as a country, or of the concept of Zionism itself without involving any anti-semitism or anti-Jewish prejudices. In fact, Israelis themselves have a robust tradition of such self-criticism.

However, I think people need to acknowledge that there is a line where the one crosses into the other. There are also people who are anti-semitic or anti-Jewish and are able to express their prejudices in polite society (so to speak) by substituting the word "Zionist" instead of Jew, such as "Zionists are controlling US foreign policy" or "Zionists run Hollywood" and the like.

I think that some on the left are so defensive about critics of Israel being unfairly labeled anti-semitic that they fail to accept the fact that sometimes the label is indeed fairly applied.