General Discussion

Agree with all, except this:

"People also look at this conflict over land/resources as Jews versus Arabs. That is also improper because it leaves out the Christians and others in both Israel and the Occupied Territories."

In fact the majority of Christians (a very small minority) there are Arabs. They call themselves Palestinians. So being Palestinian is not exclusive to Muslims.

Just as there are Jews in Israel - the Mizrahi - who consider themselves Arabs, and are, by ethnicity.

So I think a better way of describing the conflict is Zionist Jews (remember that not all Jews are Zionists, though a large majority are, much less so in the diaspora but still a majority) vs Palestinians.

Or, Zionist Israelis vs Palestinians. We can't say just Israelis vs Palestinians because of Israel's 20% or so Palestinian population. Who btw call themselves Palestinian citizens of Israel.

The big issue when it comes to anti-semitism is the fact that Israel was founded for the purpose of establishing an exclusively Jewish state. So any bad actions of Israel are linked in people's minds with the Jewish identity. Which is wrong but is also amplified by Israel's insistence that any criticism of itself is anti-semitic.

This is partly why some Jewish groups insist that their religion/ethnicity should never be conflated with the state of Israel.