I'm not "dancing around" anything.

The answer you clearly want me to agree with- the assertion that the Left had a serious issue with Israeli "security policies" is that "they just hate Jews" is SIMPLY...NOT...TRUE.

There is no reason to try to push people into endorsing a lie.

If it were true, the mass sit-in protests in the U.S. Capitol and Grand Central Station would not have been organized and staged by Jewish leftists, because there wouldn't be any Jewish leftists if the Left hated Jews.

And your insistence on equating Left dissent against the Netanyahu invasion of Gaza- and his insistence on using this situation to try and force Gazans to go en masses into permanent exile in the Arab world- with antisemitism is precisely what I meant by "emotional blackmail". Perhaps I should have said "weaponization"- the use of false accusations of that vile form of hatred to silence legitimate dissent against a government by falsely equating them with bigotry.

(BTW, I obviously don't include the hate chants in Sydney in the category of "legitimate dissent".

The real reasons the Israel/Palestine issue brings the intensity of feeling it does include the fact that this conflict shows the futility of creating ethnostates in what is certain to be a multicultural future where people of differing national identities are going to have to learn to share land and resources as equal, the leveraging of past and never-properly addressed injustices inflicted by one people against another to justify inflicting oppression on a third people who weren't involved in the original oppression, and a recognition that there are echoes of some things in the imperial/colonial/19th Century right-wing nationalist past that people on the Left feel an obligation to prevent from ever recurring.

It's NOT hatred of Jews, and it serves no good to imply that it is in order to try and and destroy the Left- without a Left, there would be no place where empathy, creativity, or hope for anything better than the present misery would exist. None of those things can survive among those who support "market values", "effeciency", and perpetual military intervention everywhere.

I won't be part of ripping the world's heart out.