Reply #8: You missed the point.

[Behind the Aegis]

I never said that anti-Israeli and Anti-Semitic sentiments were the same. What I did say is that anti-Semitism sometimes gets passed off as anti-Israeli rhetoric. The very fact that anti-Semitism has increased, some say because of Israeli actions, just proves the point that anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli thoughts and actions sometimes go hand-in-hand.

Shooting a woman to death because she is a Jew because you disagree with Israeli policy is anti-Semitism. Claiming that Anti-Semitism is increasing because of the actions of Israel is anti-Semitic. It basically boils down to blaming the victims for their victimization. What Israel does or doesn't do, should not be a catalyst for violence or rhetoric against Jewry.