Yet Israel is the one country - which is the world's only Jewish state - which is singled out for continual focus. Jeremy Corbyn said that the 'Middle Eastern' issue is the most important one in the world, on which everyone shoud focus. He referred to Hamas and Hezbollah as "friends". We can look back to Soviet history to understand a bit of why that is the case.
There are plenty of other recently formed countries in the world, some much more recently formed than Israel, and yet it is Israel which continues to attract such ire from Western Leftists ( primarily) - with denials of its right to exist, along with calls to sanction it and boycott Israeli produce ( even though Israel has provided vital jobs and income to many living in Gaza and the West Bank.)
Israel is a counry with a free press and multiple political parties. It is a democracy. Criticism of Israeli government policy is as valid as criticism of the policies of any other government. Any criticisms that are made, are also made by Israelis themselves in the context of free speech and parliamentary debate.
Legitimate criticism is not anti semitic - nobody suggests it is - it is the over focus and concentration on denying Israel's very right to exist which is the issue.
We don't see people getting quite so excited about Pakistan, or Afghanistan ,any other of the Muslim states, or marching every weekend about the regime in Iran, or the various vicious, brutal civil wars and massacres going on in African countries, or what is going on in Haiti and so on. Why is it Israel which attracts such special treatment and focus? The reason: Hatred of Israel is an article of faith on the Left and has been since the 1960's -with roots in leftist thinking about America and 'the West' in general.
Zionism is not just a political ideology - it is also the longing for home which is common in most human societies. For Jewish people this longing found a place to settle in Israel. We don't need to recount the thousands of years of persecutions, massacres, expulsions - that finally ended in the gas chambers of Europe - to understand why Zionism has such a pull.
Yet those who call themselves 'Pro-Palestinians' see no double standards or irony in calling for a Palestinian state - to which even third generation people born in the U.S.A, South America or Europe would be given a right of return. To a country that has never before existed based on the fact that their ancestors were born in that region.
What we are witnessing on the streets oof Britain now is a combination of Leftist obsession with Israel, combined with the natural emnity towards Jews from many muslims - and a new young generation of social media imspired political activists who know little about the roots of that against which they demonstrate. Hating on Israel, and not having the skills to evaluate complex, long standing issues or differentiate between particular Israeli Government policies; the Zionist project, the existence of Israel, the presence of 'openly' Jewish people - especially those who have zionist sympathies ( which is most) leads us to the current situation - in which blatamnt anti semitic and jew hating behaviour is becoming increasingly common, and even tolerated and excuses made for it.