Thank you, you've acknowledged the question. Now I understand your stance on this matter. "Anti-semitism is racism," I concur but Judaism is a religion and Jewishness is an ethnicity, not a race. I do not criticize Jews for the physical characteristics they might have, for there are Jews of all different races and I give my praise to Said and Shahak, both Israeli Jews who have written extensively about the human rights abuses of the Israeli government and Jewish fundamentalism. The most racist people in the middle east, in my opinion, are the Likudniks who treat semitic Palestinians with utter disdain. What I cannot defend is the use of this anti-Semitic canard which has been hijacked by hard-right Zionists aligned with the Likud. They have effectively used this misnormer on those they are colonizing, who, one might contend, have far more evidence of being semitic than a great portion of the Israeli government. Can they be anti-themselves? I think not. But this is just another parallel to what the Likud has done to those Jews who have stood against the ethnic cleansing, effectively discrediting them through the fallacious term, such as what has been used on Said and Shahak–self-hating Jew, ie. anti-themselves.