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Or rather, the Israeli settler's existence is blasphemous by European religion. And while we can dispute the way Europeans came upon this religion, the fact remains that the existence of Israelis speak against it, and by extension the Great Satan (that being the United States) that [in their view, and arguably correctly] is the only reason they can exist.
We compare this to anti-semitism because Jews have been against European religion before, but the god they worshipped was different back then so it was expressed differently. Right now, Europeans worship a pantheon of various unnamed goddesses, so the methods of addressing blasphemy are a lot more "required to self-flagellate and live in terror and continual denial of the capabilities and desires others assume you have" than they used to be with respect to forced but one-time conversions, expulsion, and just straight up death.
The European priestesses can rail against China and Pakistan all they like; they can't do shit about what they do, and they know it (compare "fargroup"). It's not so much "not white" as they are "can't possibly convince America to impose European religion on them", but they can do that to Israel due to it being a tiny country that is simply America's favorite vassal state (and to a point are jealous of this).
And in fairness, Europeans believe this worked against South Africa because the American religion adherents imposed American religion on them around the time a sea-change in what that was occurred (i.e. the 60s), and that just happened to rhyme/align with what European religion is now (so obviously, it was their efforts that did it). So naturally, Europeans will try this with Israel, and will hence do things like try to drag Israeli officials into its ecclesiastical court (and the Americans find rhetorically useful to honor when it suits them, like having the Europeans excommunicate the Russian king a few years ago when he declared war on the buffer state between Europe and Russia) and sanction the Great Satan (the US) over its violation of what Europe perceives, in some degree correctly, is American religious law.
But American religion (or at least, the religion native to Americans) remains compatible with Israeli goals; maximally cynically, it draws a distinction between brown and Black. Even European religion adherents in the US have mostly failed to have the American care for Black extend to brown, which is why they're conflated by adherents of that religion.
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