# At what point does debate around Israel become antisemitism?

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**Created:** [September 16, 2026, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-does-debate-around-israel-become-antisemitism/1033102 "2026-09-16T05:56:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 17, 2026, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/at-what-point-does-debate-around-israel-become-antisemitism/1033102/151 "2026-09-17T14:46:40Z")

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> [@DPRK](#):
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> Yahya Sinwar was a fucking terrorist, and if someone thinks he was cool, that essentially tells you all you need to know about them. So let us forget about him.
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> Pivoting on the subject of terrorists, people like Menahem Begin were also terrorists, and he has fucking streets named after him in Israel, which perhaps makes it undiplomatic to criticize him and his ilk but that does not make it anti-semitic.

Sorry, but there really is no comparison between Hamas and the Irgun.

The worst thing the Irgun did was the King David Hotel bombing, which at the end of the day _did_ target a British command center, not civilians. Sinwar’s men went into Kibbutznik homes and a music festival and butchered civilians by hand.

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