General Discussion

With one possible exception: "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis." I see no reason to except this item as a clearly antisemitic sentiment, regardless of the subsequent item you noted. That item, "However, criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic.", is universal, and is not a mitigation of the previous item you brought up. Sadly, criticism of Israel is overwhelmingly dissimilar to that leveled against other countries. In the rare instances where this criticism is even-handed, it is, indeed, not antisemitic.

Notwithstanding this last point, I understand that it is the actions and policies which go beyond the IHRA definition that concern you. As a Jew, I am equally concerned about these actions: not only do they weaponize the subject of antisemitism as a political tool, they devalue and trivialize the entire notion of Jew hatred. And I am by far not the only one holding this view. I have to note, though, that antisemitism is far older than the Trump and the Netanyahu administrations, and the core culture of antisemitism remains and thrives regardless of these two administrations' efforts to weaponize it. The entrenched bigots, in turn, often take advantage of the abhorrent actions of these two aforementioned administrations to shield overtly antisemitic sentiments as mere criticism of the two. It works the same both ways.

I must object, however, to lumping Zionism together with the policies of the current government in Israel. Overwhelmingly, I find critiques of Zionism extremely ill- informed. Concurrently, the context in which those ignorant references to Zionism are communicated and promoted makes these references indistinguishable from and synonymous with "Jews". This confluence of references makes the resulting narrative unabashedly antisemitic.