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But it is also an inescapable fact that the world’s only Jewish state is also the target of a considerable proportion of the world’s public hostility to aggression and abuse by world governments.

Israel does many bad things. It is also not *uniquely* bad. There are many states that do many bad things around the world, to their own subjects and people across borders, that don’t receive anything like the volume and intensity of criticism that Israel does.

Some of the same people will say, with a straight face, that Ukrainian resistance to Russian state aggression is invalidated by the existence of the Azov brigade and that criticism of Hamas is tantamount to Nazism.

We cannot lose sight of anti-Semitism as a unique form of intersectional hatred that has operated *for at least a thousand years* in centuries of racial and class oppression and repeated genocides.