As I've despised Crime Minister Netanyahu since he was first elected by the Palestinian suicide bombers in 1996 who destroyed the Israeli left, you're spouting evidence-free nonsense. Among my Israeli friends: an advisor to Yitzhak Rabin before his assassination and one of the organizers of the anti-Netanyahu protests.
The genocidal "from the river to the sea" signs are ubiquitous at every protest.
"calling for Jewish blood"--"From the river to the sea" is a call for Jewish blood. So is that now famous Sydney Opera House aria "gas the Jews"--a mass genocide advocacy chorus--and the Judenrein-boosting "keep the world clean" with a star of David in the trash, one from a Norwegian student within a stone's throw of the Warsaw ghetto's Umschlagplatz.
"war crimes": Read the UN statute:
"Intentionally launching an attack in the knowledge that such attack will cause incidental loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects or widespread, long-term and severe damage to the natural environment which would be clearly excessive in relation to the concrete and direct overall military advantage anticipated;
Attacking or bombarding, by whatever means, towns, villages, dwellings or buildings which are undefended and which are not military objectives"
It requires intention. So using the term "wantonly" is legally inaccurate.
Hamas has promised many more October 7s. The threat is existential, which legalizes bombing Hamas' human shields to eliminate Hamas murderers due to the "direct overall military advantage anticipated"--Israel's survival as a viable state whose citizens can live anywhere within its borders. Currently 300000 evacuated Israelis can't until Hamas and Hizbullah are totally defeated. What existentially necessary military action and its advantage should Israel forego to avoid war crimes? As the threat is existential, you're asking Israel to be a little bit pregnant with existential insecurity. That you would never ask any other state to do the same is double standard antisemitism.
You can moralize all you like about it, but this is legal fact.
Palestinian peace activist Bassam Eid says
Hamas uses people to protect rockets while Israel does the reverse.
What he says means this legally: a school storing arms becomes an armory and no longer undefended.
A hospital with a Hamas terrorist with an RPG is a command post and no longer undefended.
An ambulance transporting rockets is a weapon, not medical infrastructure.
You're an anti-semite if you're:
Protesting against Israeli war crimes while ignoring:
Russian war crimes in Ukraine, Abkhazia (1993–94), Georgia (2008) and Chechnya (1994–96, 1999–2000).
Indian crimes in Kashmir since 1989 (I was in empty Srinagar in June 1989 when this one was starting).
Hizbullah targeting of Israeli civilians, forcing the evacuation of 80000 from Israel's north.
Saudi war crimes bombing and starving civilians in Yemen. Turkish crimes in Kurdistan.
Hamas shooting Gazan civilians escaping south.
Proclaiming the Palestinian right to self-determination while:
Denying that Jews are a nation as well as a religion and call Israel a “cosplay nation” subject to DNA tests applied to no other nation.
Denying to Jews the right to define their identity while granting it to other peoples.
Calling Israel a “white, colonial settler state”, which erases the black Jews from Ethiopia and Yemen. You ignore that 65% of Israelis are Sephardic Jews who are no whiter than the Arabs of the states they were ethnically cleansed and expropriated from.
“A slight but solid majority of Europeans — 54% — said Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state, with the figure rising to two-thirds in Poland.” This means 46% are anti-semitic.
Dr. Einat Wilf, who advised Ehud Barak in negotiations with the PA, explains how anti-Zionism is the new anti-semitism and the canary in the coal mine of western social and political decay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qGewRDWJGo&t=5s
The double standard in charging genocide
If you accuse Israel of genocide while ignoring:
Hamas genocidal charter.
That the Secretary General of the Arab League promised a “war of extermination” against mandatory Palestine’s Jews.
Palestinian and other imams’ Friday sermons invoking extermination of the Jews:
“At an Islamic Center in Davis this July, Imam Ammar Shahin delivered two sermons, one of which (translated into English by the Middle East Research Institute MEMRI) reads: “Oh, Allah, liberate the Al-Aqsa mosque from the filth of the Jews. . . . Oh, Allah, count them one by one and annihilate them down to the very last one. . . . Oh Allah, make this happen by our hands. Let us play a part in this. Oh Allah, let us support them in words and in deeds.”
Tell Israeli Jews to live in a binational secular, democratic Palestine while:
Ignoring that there’s not a single democratic state in the Arab world.
Ignoring that secular governance is inconceivable in Islam, with its definition of the state as the “umma”, or community of believers.
Ignoring Hamas’ openly proclaimed Islamic supremacy:
Ignoring 1300+ years of Islam’s Koranically codified regime of Jim Crow-type Dar-al-Dhimmi subordination and terror, with extortionate jizya poll taxes and periodic pogroms.
Go to pro-Palestine demos where you listen to slogans and see with no objection signs like:
“Fuck the Jews, rape their daughters”, as in the Jewish neighborhood of Golders Green, London in 2021.
The eliminationist “Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea” while those holding that sign at one demo were unable to name the river in question.
And fail to ask Palestinians at those demos what they mean by “occupation”, “free Palestine, from the river to the sea.”
https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/youre-an-anti-semite-if-you-3d0b022ffa05
