My old colleague Richard (D.) North just pointed me at a long, but incisive piece by Geoffrey Wheatcroft in the Spectator. The historical point of the argument was to show how many Jews had been anti-Zionist in the early years of the project, and how very far from self-evident the project of a Jewish nation-state once seemed. The polemical bite came from his dissection of the idea that anti-Zionism, and specifically opposition to the policies of the present Israeli government, is itself a form of anti-Semitism.
The final sting in his argument comes in the following passage:
“There is one final point, never mentioned but central. I quite agree