People think things they don't even know they think.
Psychologically, Israeli success and wealth (GDP per capita 8x Egypt's, for example) is a permanent affront to the truth Muslims think they have as owners of God's final revelation that completes its two Abrahamic faith predecessors. If we're right, how come we're such poor, misgoverned failures?
But don't take it from me. Listen to the UAE's foreign minister: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dV4m43xZmY
"people who criticize Israel as people who hate Jews"--After the global explosion of anti-semitic hatred, the burden of proving they're not engaging in double standard and moral equivalence anti-semitism is on Israel's critics. My new default is, show me you're actively demolishing the odious ideology of moral equivalence in your critique of Israel and I'll trust you're not failing the double standard anti-semitism demolition test. But not before.
Show me you've dedicated as much energy and passion in condemning mass killings in Darfur, Sudan, Libya, Kurdistan, Syria, Iraq and Yemen as you have to the conflict between Israel and the West Bank Arabs and Gazans. Show me you acknowledge that "Palestinians" are an invented national identity created by the PLO for purely tactical reasons and that there's no difference between a Palestinian and an Egyptian, Jordanian, Lebanese and Syrian, as Fatah and Hamas' leaders have said (read the 1977 Zahir Muhsein interview with De Trouw (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zuheir_Mohsen).
Show me you made the effort to acquire knowledge about what West Bank Arabs mean by "occupation", "free Palestine, from the river to the sea", "peace" and "truce" before you open your mouth to condemn Israel. Show me you know that the Arabs said no 5 times since 1937 to a Jewish yes to partition and a two state solution.
Acknowledge that not all opinions are created equal and that reality and evidence based opinions count for more than those of "the great simplifiers" Voltaire warned us about.
Until you do all of this, listen to those with expert knowledge who've read and studied this issue far more than you have instead of condemning Israel.
