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If Miliband's comparatively mild, caveated, and strictly targeted criticism of Israeli settler actions are enough to endanger the UK Jewish community & unleash pogroms then: a) We've passed some point of no return. b) Successive UK governments have utterly failed in addressing antisemitism.

Also, while I think everyone has a responsibiltiy to combat antisemitism and violent extremism, it seems dubious that Netenyahu can do and say whatever he wants - no matter how incendiary - but other governments can't criticize his actions for fear of endangering their Jewish communities.

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If the argument is that Israel's global reputation is directly correlated to the safety of the Jewish diaspora then surely no one has a bigger responsibility to safeguard that reputation than Israel's Prime Minister. ... and he doesn't appear to give a shit.

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.

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.

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.☹️

Being precise with your language is extremely Important. The replies of Zara Sultana and Netanyahu (inevitably) were examples of the exact opposite.

Absolutely nobody is doing him the honour of applying the same level of care in the language they use in their critiques of what he said, or even in having understood exactly what he said, and that must be utterly infuriating to him.

1/8 Beale: You want to hang the safety of every Jew on Earth on the Prime Minister’s shoulders like some holy burden? That’s not leadership—it’s scapegoating wrapped in moral wool.

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.

3/8 To pretend otherwise is to offer a false idol while ignoring the real work—solidarity, education, local resistance—that actually keeps communities safe.

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.