The only intellectually honest path is to hold both commitments simultaneously, without letting either moderate the other. We must be willing to criticize Israel as though antisemitism does not exist: that is, without softening legitimate questions about Israeli policy or American complicity in it for fear of how those questions might be misused. And we must be willing to name and fight antisemitism as though the state of Israel does not exist: that is, without treating every accusation of hatred of Jews as a defense of Israeli government policy, and without exempting anti-Israel rhetoric from scrutiny simply because it comes wrapped in the language of anti-imperialism or national sovereignty.
from The US-Israel relationship is finally facing a reckoning. It doesnāt need to slide into antisemitism || Joel Swanson
