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​Pure low-capital rage-bait. Inventing fake rules and catastrophic threats over standard trade decisions sounds like hallucinations from internet backrooms. It's just cheap drama crafted to farm algorithm engagement when real political analysis is missing.

This is pure clickbait rhetoric designed to game the algorithm. Foreign trade policy and sanctions against illegal settlements are sovereign geopolitical decisions, not antisemitism. Conflating state diplomacy with internal hate is just ignorant engagement-farming.

Everything is antisemitic to the supporters of the genocide.

Yes I understand it’s not your argument. I just don’t understand the thought processes that lead others to this conclusion.

I think that is a false assumption. By officially registering opposition to the Israeli Settler actions, it should help reduce frustration in those strongly opposed to Netanyahu's evil regime. This may actually head off more extreme individual actions.

Take a wild guess

I think more fundamentally is has long been a kind of knee jerk dogma that as Israel exists to be THE safe refuge for Jews, any criticism of or restriction on Israel threatens Jewish safety (and aids antisemites because antisemites seek to hurt Jews). It's a potent inhibitor of speech and action.

This is what truly sickens me about this, abusing the concept of anti-Semitism to prop up a frankly terrible government and stating that all Jews = Israel. Allying with right wing 'Christian' nationalists who hate Jews for short term gain. I do not feel this will end well.

Vs the fact that Israeli govt, and settler, actions are widely unpopular for good reason, and antisemites use UK govt inaction as evidence of (right wing) Zionist influence. With Mirvis' statement making half of their argument for them.

This huge over-the-top reaction to what are in fact small measures (though welcome), is to intimidate countries from imposing more effective sanctions. It's the time-age "maximum retaliation to minimum threat"

The obvious truth is that it is the Netanyahu regime that is causing the threat to Jewish communities across the world, not governments that are telling this truth.

I suspect Netanyahu regards threats to the diaspora as an opportunity to increase israel’s prominence within that diaspora. For better or worse I believe many jews see Israel as the refuge of last resort - even if they are vehemently opposed to Netanyahu’s actions

I've been convinced for a long time that he *deliberately* foments anti-Semitism, violence and hatred against Jews around the world, in order to justify his actions as "Mr Security" and pushing for an ever more powerful, dominant and aggressive vision of Israel.

People seem quite happy to call out Trump for what he's doing in Iran and elsewhere, without thought of the impact it might have on Americans, or even Christians, so am I being over-simplistic to think that this is the same thing? We're surely criticising the man, not people of the same faith.

Always worth going back to the source.

I wasn't sure why he had that position in the government. Now I do and I think he did an excellent job

Yes we've past a very dangerous marker, it's effectively now impossible to criticise Israel and their many completely unacceptable actions without being labelled antisemitic. Exactly as Netanyahu demand, Israel are now basically above any international law.

Is there a recording?

Bibi wants perpetual war as that’s the only way he can stay in office (& keep mobilising the reserves for active service.) Greater Israel & regional hegemony go hand in hand. And forcing the diaspora to emigrate to Israel is grist to the mill for the new Trojan state that he’s creating.☹️

Milliband seemed to be careful to be precise with the words used

2/8 No army, no intelligence service, no government can guarantee safety for a diaspora scattered under a thousand skies, facing a thousand kinds of hate.

Israel emphatically does *not* want the Jewish diaspora to feel safe. there are documented cases in the Middle East of bombings of Jewish areas carried out by Israeli terrorists, in order to spread the lie that Jews were threatened there. and so it continues, in more subtle forms

I also think that he is guilty of deliberately conflating the State of Israel with the global Jewish community for his own political and diplomatic ends, so his criticism of other governments on this score rings very hollow indeed.

Yes exactly this. Some people have either completely lost the plot or are being extremely cynical in pursuit of short-term partisan advantage.

"For balance" there should have been many more voices from the Jewish community in the UK that the BBC and other media outlets interviewed agreeing wholeheartedly with the drift of Milliband's statements. A significant number of UK Jews are appalled by settler ethnic cleansing of the West Bank

Anti genocide is not antisemitism, to equate the two is not honest.

The one Rabbi. There is only one.