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You could say "if you don't think the actions of Israel are a result of a valid fear of persecution following centuries of anti-Semitism but instead as some sort of innate colonialism then I'm afraid you're dancing with anti-Semitism
To an extent yeah but you're ignoring the whole Zionist cause here.
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I'm not conflating the two - my exact point is that you are criticising Israel and don't see that as anti-semitic, but are accusing those who criticise Hamas as islamophobic.
In either case there's a distinction between the race and the organisation doing bad things, in both cases they expressly cite religion as part of their motivation and charter, and in both cases you can look at history for causes as to why they've got their (Israel as a reaction to longstanding persecution of Jews, Hamas as a response to the plight of Arabs in Palestine).
You could say "if you don't think the actions of Israel are a result of a valid fear of persecution following centuries of anti-Semitism but instead as some sort of innate colonialism then I'm afraid you're dancing with anti-Semitism"