I'm sincerely horrified that you've experienced personal antisemitism.

Massively more needs to be done on that issue, and in many, many respects, "standing with Israel" does nothing about antisemitism at all, and there are many occasions when it does seem as though the Israeli government wants antisemitism to get far worse, because it is convinced that it cannot survive in a world where the majority of people who are Jewish genuinely feel safe.

We really need to decouple the issues of antisemitism, on the one hand, and opinions on the Israel/Palestine issue on the other.

And in my experience, the vast majority of people, in fact nearly all people in the Palestine solidarity movement are opposed to antisemitism and committed to actively fighting it. On the other hand, many so-called "Christian Zionists" are themselves actively antisemitic; many seem to support the idea of a Jewish state because they want no Jews in THEIR state, and more than most of us would like to think are committed to the "Last Days" agenda in which, after the Temple is rebuilt, Jews would be forced to choose between conversion to Christianity or death.

Antisemitism needs to be fought, and the Palestine solidarity movement needs to make fighting it a major part of ITS agenda- at the same time, "pro-Israel" people cannot be assumed to be philosemites of opponents of antisemitism in any way at all.

I think more dialog and less focus on who wins and who loses is what is needed.

Thanks for writing your article.