Actually, Jim and some others have raised not so much an on-topic discussion point so much as a relevant point of attitude.

You are all acting like anti-Obama American Republicans.

Obama was not perfect. But he was at the very least a good American President. He paid attention to the actual stuff of government that needed attention. He tackled some major issues, such as Healthcare. And what did the Republicans do? They blocked him in every way they could, from policy positins (some of which they had previously endorsed) to pretty much any political appointment they could vote on, especially getting judges at any level approved.
And they lied, and they lied and they lied about Obama and Hillary Clinton. They indulged in any form of character assassination they could.
And, tactically, it worked.
Even in his first administration I was lacking in a way to explain it. Obama was not Muslim. He was not Socialist. He wasn't really that liberal. His administration observed a steady American immigration policy which resulted in many deportations. So what was left? Only the shade of his skin. I started using the term "free floating racism", because while the Republicans insisted 'no, no, we're not racist' the only thing I could think of left to really object to him was that a non-white, the first non-white in a line of over two hundred years of Presidents, had made it legally to the seat of power, and was in addition obviously competent. This madness could not be.

Similiarly, of all the national actors in the Mideast, Israel stands out: Multi-ethnic. Democratic. Great business activity. No one says it's perfect. But it is undeniably exceptional.

I think it is justifiable to argue that many of the diatribes and voices raised against her are due to free floating anti-Semitism. And I don’t care if you call it anti-Zionism. They are the same thing in this case because it is Israel as a Jewish state that is descried.

I think the criticism meted out to Labour is well warranted and many of the folks in this forum are well representing the problem in its most basic form.

And for that, I thank you!