(3) One point I didn’t mention in my previous post is that SJP’s statement seems part and parcel of a nationwide SJP campaign to specifically try to exclude Jews from “progressive spaces” unless they will specifically denounce Israel’s existence. …

Again, this is a political strategy, rather than simply isolated incidents. Recall that the Women’s March collapsed because its founders decided that Jews were not welcome. Also note that Palestinian lobby mouthpiece Rep. Rashida Tlaib recently stated that you can’t be a progressive and support “Israel’s apartheid government” and Linda Sarsour similarly remarked that one can’t be a feminist and a “Zionist.”

(4) But, you might object, that when Tlaib says “Israel’s apartheid government” she doesn’t mean “Israel,” just the policies she objects to. That would make more sense if Tlaib wasn’t on the record as supporting the replacement of all of Israel with “Palestine.” Similarly, one commenter was quite insistent that when SJP says “Zionism” it does not mean “the existence of Israel,” “the apartheid state of Israel” means only Israel’s bad policies that they think is akin to apartheid, and the “occupation of Palestine” means only the occupation of the West Bank, not all of Israel. Anyone who knows SJP’s history and politics would know that they mean, exactly, that anyone who supports Israel’s existence should be forbidden from speaking. But just for the heck of it, I perused SJP Berkeley Law’s Facebook page, which talks about “Israel’s apartheid” going back to the late 1940s, ie, when Israel was founded, and well before the “occupation” of the West Bank. So when you see Tlaib, SJP, and others talk about “apartheid Israel,” there is a very simple question to ask: Is there a time when you think Israel wasn’t guilty of “apartheid,” and is there anything Israel could do, short of surrendering in favor of a Palestinian Muslim-majority state, that would make Israel “not apartheid?” Once they evade that question, or maybe even answer honestly, you can be convinced, if you aren’t already, that in practice the apartheid libel has nothing to do with Israel’s policies, and everything to do with opposition to Israel’s existence and the desire to replace it with a Palestinian Muslim majority state.