Susan, I live in the states and have, and have always had a lot of contact with Jewish people, Jewish cousins, Jewish aunts, and I am not anyone who is making anti-Semitic comments. What bothers me that for too long people have not been allowed to be critical of Israel out of fear of being called anti-Semitic, which is pretty much the reason we are where we are today. They have also used that term to weaponize political discourse in this country, and lets not forget the lobby that has a tremendous influence on political policies in the US. If anything our many Middle Eastern wars and the relative silence around them told me loud and clear my fellow Americans don't give a damn about Arabs or Muslims and from some I've heard as much.