HR Huges - i feel you are conflating not only Jews and Israelis, but also bundling too many Israelis (and Jews) into an undifferentiated bucket. Indeed, the fact that you seem to be able to so naturally go from criticism of Israel  to the supposed despised status of Jews (I disagree entirely with you on that point of fact - Jews are not despised; Israelis are not despised and nor should either, as a category, be) supports all those who feel that antisemitism is always so close to the surface of European consciousness that extreme defensiveness is always called for.