Anyway, the counterargument to Hickey isn’t “is too”; it is not even to say merely that Israel has been singled out. The clincher is that Israel alone is held to a double standard (e.g. for occupying Gaza and for pulling out of Gaza). Double standards are a signature of bigotry and, as you’ve rightly demonstrated, Meryl, they are characteristic of anti-Israel criticism. Moreover, these double standards closely resemble the libels deployed against Jews throughout European history and especially during the Nazi period. And worse, the particular tactics of the anti-Israel movement suggest an eliminationist attitude towards Israel, if not Jews in general.

I live in Ireland, where incidents of organised anti-semitism are historically rare, but the one everyone knows about is the Limerick boycott of 1904. This stuff doesn’t come out of thin air.