DG:

Criticizing a Jew does not make one an anti-semite. Criticizing Judaism does not make one an anti-semite. Criticizing Jews as a group does make one an anti-semite. You can substitute the appropriate words for Jew and anti-semite and this holds true for any group of individuals.

Anti-semitism, however, connotes a lot more than mere criticism. It includes such acts as not allowing Jews to live in certain areas, stay in certain hotels or join certain organizations. It includes hate literature or speech against Jews as a group. And it can even include the murder of people simply because they are Jews. Here again, you can make the appropriate substitutions and apply it to any group of individuals.

Criticizing Israel or its government has nothing to do with anti-semitism unless that criticism is directed at the country or its government simply because it is Jewish.

Bev and Jerry