This essay in The Guardian makes me think I may be right in my long term suspicion that the word "Antisemite" has....

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41. I am a progressive social democrat, I do not know what you mean by 'leftist', as that seems too broad a brush.

I am not at all far left, I am not a socialist (democratic or otherwise), I am not a communist (of any stripe).

My politics are quite quotidian, solid centre of the left (not left of centre) in a core European/UK sort of way. I am a big believer in the the Nordic model, with a robust (but also fairly highly regulated) private sector working synergistically with an expansive social welfare state to provide as high a standard of living as is possible, along with as high a level of wealth equality as is possible. I am a huge proponent of labour unions as well.

Lots of things left out, but you should get the drift by now. I also do not think the Guardian is nearly as radical left as I understand you to be claiming.

I also fleshed out some of my P/I stances to you in a previous reply (which I hope you saw). I am hardly some bomb-throwing radical on it all. I do not approve of ANY of the pro-Hamas elements that are unfortunately found within the overarching Palestinian side of the protests. I condemned them with all my essence. They are anti-human.

That said, one core to my stances on the P/I situation:

International law and rules of war have disportionate response elements, as does real life global (including the US) public opinion and its attendant political and geo-military realities.

Israel simply does not possess an absolutely free, unfettered hand to do whatever their RW leaders want to the Palestinian people. It just doesn’t, no matter how much or for how long the self-defence banner is waved. At some floating point (one that will be bitterly argued over for sure) it does become comprehensive crimes and genocidal and/or ethnic cleansing adjacent.