From: roger@hayter.org 
  
 On 3 Aug 2025 at 12:31:54 BST, "GB"  wrote: 
  
 > On 02/08/2025 20:35, The Todal wrote: 
 >> I think Lewis sincerely believes 
 >> that criticism of Israel is usually motivated by antisemitism and a 
 >> desire to destroy the state of Israel. 
 > 
 > The phrase you're looking for is "Scratch an anti-Zionist, and you'll 
 > find an anti-semite underneath." 
  
 It is entirely possible to accept the pragmatic necessity for Israel to 
 exist 
 as a racial/religious entity (despite the arguable evils committed at its 
 formation) but also to be strongly critical of its total failure to make a 
 rational compromise with the Palestinians, for at least the last fifty years 
 when it might have been possible. I really don't want to start a discussion 
 as 
 to whether and how it would have been possible. But I don't regard that 
 opinion as necessarily antisemitic. 
  
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