Agree with almost all that, Jim; except that I note you fail [not for the first time] to take account of the points I ref'd in the post before yours, ie those made in a significant report [you can google it] by an objective officially appointed European body. Criticism of Israel is in general just that; but if you persist in claiming that in 100% of cases it is not used as a mask for antisemitism, neverevereverever!, to give that prejudice a veneer of acceptability, then you are asserting more than you can possibly know, in direct contradiction of those who have gone more deeply than you into the question, about which they are better informed than you by the very fact of having dedicated much time to the production of an official, and respected report on it. You are often in the right on a lot of topics, Jim; but an occasional attack of uncharacteristic modesty, an admission that there might just now & then be occasions when your views are not those of an Infallible, would not come amiss.

Regards
~Michael~