Without discounting the objective reasons that might be cited for disliking Israel, I sure wouldn’t discount a good dose of polite ant-Semitism either. It sticks in the craw of a lot of otherwise reasonable people that the Jews have their own state. To them it just seems wrong. It’s fine for Jews to be doctors, lawyers, shrinks and bankers but have their own state, elect corrupt and ignorant politicians, defend themselves and commit the occasional atrocity, just like the great majority of other nation states at some point in their history… well that’s simply not on. As well as that a lot of left/liberal folks who at another time in history would have looked to some form of socialism as an all-encompassing narrative now seem to be tending just to see the USA and particularly Israel as the source of all the worlds ills and followers of Islam as a kind of new transnational proletariat. Best to all from a nervous left/liberal