'Examples of the ways in which antisemitism manifests itself with regard to the State of Israel taking into account the overall context could include:.....

       Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.'

This is just utter rubbish and I don't care who said it. Antisemitism is racial prejudice directed at Jews. The term cannot be levelled, no matter how much Bibi and Michael and bobad and Keith might wish it, against a state. For a start, antisemitism goes back thousands of years before there was a state of Israel. Second, the state of Israel contains millions of people who are not Jews. In fact, one day soon, ethnic Jews may even form a minority of the population. Perhaps Israel may wish to put itself in prejudicial harm's way by characterising itself as a Jewish state, but what it can't do is make itself into a state exclusively populated by Jews.

I fully understand why millions of Israelis would be offended by comparisons between current Israeli-regime actions and the Nazis, and, for that reason, I think it's very unhelpful and wrong-headed so to do. I'm revolted by the mistreatment of Palestinians and the land thefts, but I do want to see peace one fine day. Highlighting the undeniably outrageous and inhumane acts perpetrated by the Israeli regime by describing them in factual terms is enough. I also think it's best to describe the actions as "by the Israeli regime" or "by the Israeli military" rather than "by Israel" (though, apart from courting the usual brainless accusations of antisemitism from Bibi and at least three people here) there isn't much wrong with that shorthand. What is never right is to refer to "the Jewish lobby" (inaccurate) or "outrages perpetrated by the Jews". Even if it is mostly Jewish people who carry out the actions we are referring to, they may not be practising Jews and they may not be carrying out actions in the name of the Jewish belief system. Most people who claim to be oppressing or killing others in the name of their religion are, in fact, acting against the tenets of their religion. What a pity we feel so free to not apply the same standard to actions carried out by people of the Islamic belief system - but we don't, do we?