Bruce - simple answer, Jim is more than just his views on Israel....!!!!!
He is an inspirational champion and archivist for his speciality in British folk music,
a fiercely old school socialist internationalist, with an acute understanding of domestic UK politics,
which is a 'bias' I identify with more than the far right...
and a sprightly entertaining writer...

For all his most noticeable foibles, I like the bloke..
even when I disagree with him...

K**** however is..............

Btw - I'm glad you are so upfront with your Jewish identity...
It's so refreshing..
K**** and bob have been playing a long time sly game of writing 'as if' they might be,
only in order to trick readers into sympathising with their vicious arbitrary
denouncements of anti semitism...