[dervish]

Israel is The Jewish State. Your formulas don't work. Because Jews do = Israel. Singling out the only Jewish State in the world for special negative treatment disproportionate to their role in the world's ills is singling out the Jewish People collectively. Israel represents 5 million Jews about half the entire world's Jewish population.

Anti-Israel, anti-Zionism is the New Anti-Semitism. Hiding behind the country is just a sham and provides the veneer of respectability you are endorsing rather than coming out with a direct assault on Jews, though in Europe that too is happening. This veneer of criticizing Israel shows its cracks when European Jews are the ever increasing targets of anti-Semitic violent attacks from Muslim youth furious at Jewish Israel and their far left intellectual cheerleaders. The cracks, chasms in fact, are further displayed in the Mosques all over the Muslim world which call Jews pigs, advocate their demise via Jihad, call the Holocaust a myth, publish the Blood Libel and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. They know who they hate even if you are confused.

Please explain why Israel is the selected target of such exaggerated, in volume, intensity, and quantity, criticism. I have presented my theory of why, what is yours?

[honest2God]

So are Jews that criticize Israeli policies anti-semitic?
It is claim of anti-semetism for political critiques of Israel that is a sham. This is not to say that anti-semitism exists. But if you confuse anti-semistism, with complaints against Israel's policies, then you hinder efforts to defend against anti-semitism.
Just because Israel is the Jewish state does not make it free of criticism for STATE NOT RELIGIOUS policies.