Great post and a good point in saying that the automatic accusation in antisemitism is mostly due to disingenuousness on the part of the former allies. One confirmation is the fact that in my country, someone criticizing the policies of Israel in most cases would not be called antisemite, the way they wouldn't be called racist if they criticize the policies, of, say, Nigeria. I may give this fact due to the general ethnic tolerance in my society, plus one specific historic fact: the Bulgarian authorities, despite being on the side of Hitler in WW2, resisted his demands to hand over the Bulgarian Jews, and saved all of them. Not one Bulgarian Jew went to the concentration camps. Unfortunately, this isn't valid for those Jews who lived in the neighboring countries where the BG military carried out operations - those were rounded up and handed to Germany. Whether that could be averted or the situation prevented the BG authorities from avoiding this act, or whether they did not care about those Jews, I cannot say. But the undeniable fact is that all BG Jews were saved, with no exception. And that's a fact that all Jews and Israel as a state continues to acknowledge and commemorate to this very day. This historic moment stays deep in the psyche of the BG culture ever since, and it could be one of the reasons why antisemitism is not only almost absent here, but people feel the freedom to hold Israel morally accountable for whatever policies they disagree with, without fear of being labeled as antisemite.
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