When Ben and Jerry's boycotts the West Bank due to Israel's illegal settlements, the Israeli president calls it terrorism, and claims it is a boycott against Israel [0].<p>When people ask why Palestinians living in the West Bank are treated abhorrently, where they cannot use the same roads as Israelis, they cannot use the same legal system as Israelis, etc. Israelis claim that the West Bank is not a part of Israel.<p>As a Jew that grew up believing Israel is righteous and can do no wrong, I have had quite the rude awakening. I am not alone -- 25% of American Jews now believe Israel is an apartheid state [1]. Even young evangelicals are no longer blindly embracing Israel [2].<p>[0] <a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-president-ben-jerry-s-boycott-is-part-of-a-new-form-of-terrorism-1.10017445" rel="nofollow">https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-israel-s-presid...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-finds-a-quarter-of-us-jews-think-israel-is-apartheid-state/" rel="nofollow">https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-finds-a-quarter-of-us-jew...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/05/26/as-israel-increasingly-relies-on-us-evangelicals-for-support-younger-ones-are-walking-away-what-polls-show/" rel="nofollow">https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/05/26/a...</a>
There are a lot of people who never read any part of any Bible, have no interest in the Middle East and never want to visit there, who might not necessarily understand why criticism of Israel's military is considered automatically racist. Can someone explain that? Because the article doesn't really connect those dots for me. And the article doesn't really make any sense unless you already had that opinion.
Israel is an apartheid state though there a large component of its population does not have rights that the other does. And it has stayed like this for many decades.<p>Denouncing human rights violations is not anti-semitic.
For whatever reason, it's become acceptable on the left to be anti-Semitic so long as you sanitize it by wrapping it in anti-Israel sentiment. It reminds of how the right used rationalize anti-gay sentiment by saying "Oh, we don't hate the <i>sinner</i>, we just hate the <i>sin</i>".