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Bring critical of Israel (a nation) does NOT equate antisemitism (a religion).

How is antisemitism a religion? Judaism is. Anti-judaism... is, logically, against the judaism, but not all religions, so even anti-judaism won't qualify.

It does if that's the only standard you apply in choosing to whom you deliver a product. If you sell to despotic regimes and not to Israel, you're criticism of Israel is anti-semitic.

This argument seems very similar to the argument that not all Trump supporters are racists but (practically) all racists are Trump supporters.

There is a very difficult line to tread here, to me it feels like any inference between the state of Israel and the Jewish faith is itself somewhat anti-semitic, or at least it should be. However, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition itself does it so I am probably wide of the mark.

I think such generalizations are almost always false. Plenty of people oppose Israel for purely political reasons, not because they dislike Jews. Many American racists don't support Trump either - I doubt that for example black supremacists, who are just as racist as their white counterparts, like him very much.

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