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I am happy to accept the explanation that you are anti-Zionist and not anti-semitic. Can you explain what happened on 10/7 and during the holocaust? Usually this is a good way to examine the split between the two.
Nazis killed a lot of jews and other people they considered undesirable (homosexuals, gypsies, etc).
Hamas attacked Israel and took a number of hostages in an attempt by Yahya Sinwar to provoke a broader conflict which would destroy Israel's image in the rest of the world and force them into a fight with numerous other powers which they weren't quite ready for.
Actually, the best way to examine the split between the two is to just ask me. On that note, I will cop to being an antisemite according to the definitions adopted by my current government - I believe apartheid is bad and that destroying villages in other countries to settle the ruins is akin to the nazi Lebensraum policy. Along with my opposition to apartheid and race-exclusive death penalty laws, I and the majority of other left-wing people qualify as antisemites under the IHRA definition. I just don't think that definition is particularly useful.
Moreover, if I was actually an antisemite I wouldn't need to hide it here - you can be an open antisemite and still post here, after all. I don't accuse people of being secret racists because they believe that IQ has a heritable component, and I believe that principle should apply to most other discussions and topics on here. As I've said, my opposition to Israel is in no way due to the Jewishness of Israel - if you simply raceswapped every single Israeli jew with Jamaican Rastas my feelings would be identical.
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