I have never used the term "white adjacent Jews", nor ever would I use it. Or think it. I find that term deeply personally offensive.

Antisemitism was and is a real issue- there's less of it now than in the past, but still real, and it still needs to be fought- and I entirely agree that the historical memories you invoked there were and are valid and vivid.

All I have said- and all most of the people who are aligned with me have said or would-say- is that that historical experience is not, in any way, a justification for what the Israeli government does to ordinary Palestinians, or the relentless work that government has done to take so much land in the West Bank and build so many illegal settlements there, that the two-state solution the Israeli government claims to support is now all-but-impossible.

It doesn't in any way minimize historic Jewish suffering to say that.

And a person who recognizes that historic suffering and injustice- the vast majority of which was inflicted by European Christians, people of my own ancestry, people who have never properly addressed all that they did to the Jewish communities of Europe- is NOT obligated to accept the idea that Palestinians and the Arab world are somehow pathologically incapable of living in peace and acceptance with Jewish communities in their midst; or that Arabs and Palestinians MUST be treated by the world as atavistically antisemitic savages;

or that Palestinians and Arabs and Muslims- despite the fact that this is not a historically true thing- must be forced to accept the Likudnik premise that Jewish Israelis can be trusted with power over Palestinians, but Palestinians can never be trusted even to live with Jewish Israelis as equals, despite the fact that, until the post-1947 era, Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims, in numerous places and eras, treated their Jewish neighbors with far more civility and decency than the Christians of Europe ever did:

-there was never a Palestinian/Arab/Muslim equivalent of the Inquisition- in which Muslims were also persecuted and expelled from their homes-

there was little that compared to the establishment of the ghettos or the savagery of the Tsar's pogroms-

most tellingly of all, at the end of 1945, the Jewish communities of every Arab and Muslim country in which such communities existed were alive and intact- even those parts of the Arab/Muslim world that were under European Fascist occupation, which couid, had they wished, have sent their Jewish fellow citizens to be exterminated in Hitler's camps, never did so.

Yes, the Arab- Jewish relationship changed after 1947, largely because of the effects of competing nationalist movements.

And yes just as the Israeli government still needs to acknowledge, apologize for and offer compensation to the hundreds of thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians driven from their homes, any Arab country that had a deliberate policy of driving Arab Jews-which is what the Mizrahi should be called, for the sake of accuracy- out of their homes, leaving them no choice but to join a nationalist project virtually none of them had backed prior to 1947-48 need to acknowledge, apologize for and compensate the Jewish fellow-citizens of their countries- and their descendants- that THEY drove into exile too.

All decent people oppose antisemitism- no one should be required to support, as proof of our opposition to antisemitism that we give unquestioning approval to the reactionary, increasingly antidemocratic ideology known as "Revisionist Zionism"- the Irgun/Lehi/Herut/Likud variant of the original, already-successful and concluded liberation movement, which reduces the heroic ideals of ZIonism's original forms to nothing but the essentially fascist objective of taking land for the SAKE of taking land, which assumes the rest of the world is incapable of every feeling anything but murderous hatred towards everyone and everything Jewish and insists that the Palestinian cause is not grounded in ANY legitimate grievances but instead, in nothing but hatred of the cultures/ethnicities/religious and philopsophic traditions grouped within Judaism.

Opposition to antisemitism should simply mean being an active part of the continuing struggle against anti-Jewish bigotry.