"If you blame Israel and only Israel (and throw in the USA) for the ills of Palestineans or the Middle East,"
Israel is a highly militarised, terrorist state which has persistently used its military might in pursuit of an expansionist policy.
Through its persistant disregard for human rights and international law it has done more damage to the Jewish people than has been done by any dedicated anti-Semite organisation since the end of W.W.2.
"If you deny the attachment of the Jewish people to ancient Israel..."
This is basing the existance of a state on a 2000 year old myth and, carried to its logical conclusion, would justify any demand to returning of the USA to the Native Americans, New Zealand to the Maori people and Australia to...... where would you like to call a halt?
"If you consistently claim Israel is not a democratic country,"
The Nazi Party were elected democratically - how you attain power is only a part of the picture, how you use it when you have it is what counts.
The only anti Semitism to appear on this thread has been in the imaginations of those spineless enough to resort to the blackmail tactic of "agree with me or I'll call you an anti-Semite".
You have my gratitude - reading your prescriptive list explains perfectly where Israel is coming from.
The whingeing and snivelling about paint-bomb guns, fire works or who fired first is totally beside the point. Israeli troops committed an act of piracy on the high seas, they killed (possibly executed) unarmed or poorly armed non combatants who were well within their legal rights in offering resistance.
In the past they have been guilty of slaughtering civilians, buldozing homes, using chemical weapons and ghettoising citizens in order to annex their land - war crimes, no less.
I suppose this make me (along with the vast majority of the democratic, free-thinking world) an anti-Semite.
Jim Carroll