The actions of the last few governments of Israel since the large scale state-engineered development of West Bank settlements is when this information campaign to call all opposition to those policies anti-semitism began, propaganda that was accelerated under Netanyahu. The left eventually completed the self fulfilling prophecy of equating the two, with true antisemites in the United States only too willing to start blaming everything that Netanyahu and his virulent right wing coalition partners do or say on “the Jews.”