If you choose not to debate anything Israel ever does, you are effectively refusing to debate decades of ethnic cleansing, settlements and pogroms on the West Bank, the mass murder of 30,000 women and children in Gaza, a war of choice against Iran that is rebounding badly, and Jewish fundamentalism of the most intolerant and theocratic kind.

And of course you don’t want to debate all that! Who would? So you just rule it all out of bounds.

The underlying argument is that everything Israel does is always entirely justified by the nature of its enemies. The whataboutism is total. The suspension of all moral reasoning is necessary to wage a war on Islamist fundamentalism.

What this tells us is something we already know: there is literally no crime that Israel could commit that would allow some Israel supporters to reassess their total support.

There really isn’t.