A chronic allegation made by Jew haters is that you can’t criticize the military policies of the Israeli government in Gaza without being accused of antisemitism.
This is nonsense – criticism of those policies is not antisemitic.
Calling for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state, advocating for the murder of Jews and firing bullets at children’s day schools in Canada are antisemitic.
In fact, there is a long history of Israel’s military and security leaders fiercely criticizing the policies of Israeli governments. Obviously, they are not antisemites.
While these officials typically wait until retiring to condemn policies it was their duty to enforce, the latest confrontation occurred when Eyal Zamir – the current chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces – clas