It does more than that. It tarnishes the believability of all accusations of antisemitism, even those made by reasonable people about actual antisemitism.
It also proactively fuels antisemitism by conflating Israel with Jews more broadly. Because of rhetoric like this, some subset of people who are outraged at Israel l’s actions will now direct that outrage at Jews more broadly.
Unfortunately true as well, but the hasbara logic is flawed. They will use such cases of only a few people as a reason to say that those people must represent everyone in a group. Where have we heard this before?
It does more than that. It tarnishes the believability of all accusations of antisemitism, even those made by reasonable people about actual antisemitism.
It also proactively fuels antisemitism by conflating Israel with Jews more broadly. Because of rhetoric like this, some subset of people who are outraged at Israel l’s actions will now direct that outrage at Jews more broadly.
Moreover, Palestinians have semitic DNA.
Unfortunately true as well, but the hasbara logic is flawed. They will use such cases of only a few people as a reason to say that those people must represent everyone in a group. Where have we heard this before?