When synagogues in the UK are being vandalized with swastikas, when residents of New York and US citizens are getting beaten on Fifth Avenue, and people lament these things on social media, that is not an appropriate time to criticize Israel's action as a country. Yet this is the norm.

This reasoning is great.

When black churches are being shot up, that is not an appropriate time to criticize Uganda's action as a country.

When South Americans are being detained in cages at the border, that is not an appropriate time to criticize Venezuela's action as a country.

When Muslims are experiencing intense Islamophobia, that is not an appropriate time to criticize Syria's action as a country.

I love this absolutely brilliant smokescreen. I'm going to use it. Thank you.

I think you missed the point of my message.

Of course plenty of criticism of Israel is valid and not anti-Semitic.

It is also true that plenty of anti-Semites love to criticize Israel.

Of course plenty of accusations of anti semitism are valid.

It's also true that a vast number of them are false accusations used by Israeli racists to quash criticism of the apartheid system within Israel.

Politicians who criticize Israel legitimately are always subjected to this.