A more nuanced assessment (than my title) from UCLA professor Dov Waxman:
1. We must unequivocally condemn antisemitic acts against Jews and not make excuses for those who commit them.
2. We also need to acknowledge that Israel’s actions fuel much (but not all) of the anger and hatred directed against Jews nowadays.
3. Conflating Jews with Israel has been promoted by antisemites, U.S. politicians, the Israeli state and its officials, and by major Jewish organizations and mainstream institutions.
4. We should also recognize that while most Jewish Americans do not support the Israeli government’s policies or the Israeli army’s actions in Gaza and the West Bank, most Jews are emotionally attached to Israel and care about it, and it is wrong to require them to sever or disavow their connection to Israel in order to avoid antisemitic discrimination or be safe from antisemitic violence.
5. The fact that hatred of Israel can cause hatred of Jews and that Jews are being attacked because they are associated with Israel does not mean that Jews deserve to be hated or targeted because of this association, but it is not victim-blaming to note that people make this association at least partly because the Jewish state itself and major Jewish groups outside Israel continually emphasize the connection between Jews and Israel and between Judaism and Zionism.
Maybe it is true that “most Jews are emotionally attached to Israel,” but in my own experience, this seems to be less and less true.




And the second paragraph?