And on to my next question. Every time somebody criticizes Israel, you accuse them of being

anti-Semitic. I hear this a lot. I'm going to take it as a question. It's something you hear from

very senior people as well, not just trolls, not just ordinary people. President of Ireland, Higgins,

recently Michael Higgins said something very similar. If you criticize Netanyahu's policies,

you're then described as anti-Semitic and that campaign against Ireland,

claiming that it is anti-Semitic is in fact hurting investment in Ireland from America,

for example.

What's fascinating about this argument is that there's nothing complicated about the answer.

It's actually unbelievably simple.

Criticism of Israel, criticism of Israel's actions, criticism of Netanyahu or his policies is not anti-Semitic.

There's nothing anti-Semitic about them.

I say that as somebody

with several hundred essays, podcast episodes, interviews, et cetera over the last 20 years, criticizing

Nizenyao, Nizenyao's policies, other Israeli prime ministers and leaders and governments and

ministers, and the things they have done, sometimes very fierce critiques, including, by the way,

of their behavior during this war, including decisions that unnecessarily hurt Palestinians during this war.

I promise you, I have not spoken a word of anti-Semitism in all of my critiques of the Israeli

government.

Where does the anti-Semitism come into play?

Because it's still there.

Anything Israel does? Fair game. Israel's very existence as a Jewish

polity, the very idea that Jews are a people capable of self-determination is contested by

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