Anti-Semitism: One Jew's perspective about recent events (long read)

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64. What I take issue with is when people slip trace amount of a nationalistic ideology into what is

otherwise a reasonable argument and then scream when they are called out on it. Furthermore, I always find it to be a red flag when people immediately lose their shit at the mere mention of Arabs.

"Do not "redefine" anti-Semitism to include others who aren't Jews,"

There is only one other "Semitic" group that is of practical relevance in the context of this statement, and that group is Arabs. Since the OP clearly means
"Do not "redefine" anti-Semitism to include Arabs," it is rather telling that they would be deliberately vague on this point.

"Do not excuse or otherwise downplay anti-Semitism by bringing up the sins of Israel! "

It is no secret that there is an ongoing conflict between Jews and Arabs in Israel, and that bigotry is a two-way street in the context of that conflict. What the OP has done is to define any acknowledgement of this two-way street as a form of bigotry and therefore asserted a form of moral high-ground for one side of this conflict.

Look, I am all for leaving Israel out of the discussion. There is no reason whatsoever to draw a line between the vandalization of Jewish graves in the US and a 15 year old boy in the Gaza strip who threw a rock at a window after Nethanyahu once again decided to "mow the lawn". But the OP has done exactly that, in a subtle way.