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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io 💯. Although, sad to say, the effort to portray criticism of the current Israeli government as anti-Semitic doesn't only come from right-wing anti-Semites, the Israeli government and many of its supporters (including some Jewish organizations in the US) have been pushing it for years. It's certainly true that some criticisms of the Israeli government are blatantly anti-Semitic, and some are cloaked anti-Semitism ... but I've said for years that the short-sighted attempt to define it as inherently anti-Semitic (or put such narrow definitions in place that in practice any criticism is anti-Semitic) would come back to bite us, and now it is. Sigh.

As you say though I think that the majority of liberal and leftist people are against anti-Semitism ... and for that matter so are a fair number of conservative people.