I agree with Mark that the article linked by Shambles is not suitable as a topic as stated in the thread title. And BB (if he is talking about the article posted by Shambles). That article is a sort of self-righteous and slightly weird article espousing the author's Israel agenda and has eff-all to do with anti-semitism. It sounds as if he /she started to write one thing "I propose we have fun with it" and ended up with another.

This thread may be polluted at inception. Nevertheless I'll make the obvious observation that while not every anti-Israeli opinion is anti-semitic, a hell of a lot of Anti-Israeli invective is. Typically, you can tell the difference because somewhere the promulgator will say: "I'm not anti-semitic, but...."

At the risk of starting thread drift, I'll say from personal observation, there really IS sexual harassment. And there really exist cases of folks claiming sexual harassment as a way of gaming the system. This is not a dig at sexual harassment laws, this is an observation that there are people who will game ANY system.

Similarly with anti-semitism. There are folks who will simply substitute zionism for Judaism as a way of advancing their agenda. There are also folks who will respond with any jibe they do not like as 'antisemitism'. There was a cute Seinfeld scene where he tried to convince his uncle that his uncle's girlfriend was an antisemite, mainly because Seinfeld was trying to manipulate his uncle. When it didn't work out, Seinfeld inveigled his uncle to take her back. "But she's an anti-semite" says the uncle. "Can you blame her?" says Seinfeld.

The latest case in the world of televised talking heads was over whether Patrick Buchanon was anti-semitic based on comments he made over Israel and the Israel lobby "amen corner".