Mr Singer obviously feels he is helping the Zionist cause with his constant accusations of antisemitism and Jew hatred against all those who support the Palestinians in their struggle for independence against the military occupation they have lived under for 45 years.
I believe he is very mistaken in his belief. To most progressive enlightened westerners, being called a racist is one of the worst insults that can be made. Each of us who supports the Palestinians knows full well what our motivation is. And for most of us that is the desire to see justice done and for the Palestinians to enjoy the kind of freedom that both we in Australia and those in Israeli enjoy. Not some mythical Jew hatred that Mr Singer would invoke. To insult us in such a way is unlikely to convert anyone to his distorted world view where freedom and justice belong only to the chosen people.

More crocodile tears from the Zionist lobby, Mr Singer's articles are rather pythonesque in their tireless attempts to portray the predator as victim. I'm also waiting for some "balancing" pro-Palestinian propaganda.

Rhys Jones,

"To most progressive enlightened westerners, being called a racist is one of the worst insults that can be made."

Don't agree entirely, the terms "racist", "anti-Semite" and "Islamophobe'" have been degraded by hypocritical misuse. Anti-Arab racism is widespread on many of the pro-Zionist websites, most of them don't even bother to disguise the poison as "anti-Islamism."

The standard riposte to dishonest charges of anti-Semitism is "well, you're anti-goy"

Singer alludes to Jews living in the occupied territories, as though they should have some right to remain there. He says they have been living there legally. By whose laws? The laws of Israel are no more relevant to who my legally live there than are the laws of Upper Volta (to give but one example).

He refers to Jews having been expelled from those areas in 1948. Such people should be allowed to return there, just as non-Jews who formerly lived in what is now Israel should be allowed to return there. (Unfortunately Singer has a severe blind spot here - Jews matter more to him than non-Jews.).

As for a "Jewish state" and his condemnation of the Arab response to it - well, what was that intended to mean? Certainly not a state where non-Jews living there at the time of the partition in 1948 had less rights than Jews - this is quite clear in the UN resolutions. Whether Palestinian leaders object to that sort of "Jewish state" seems quite unclear.

Israel's arrogant dismissal of world opinion by announcing another 3000 houses to be built in the Palestinian Occupied Territories seems to be pointing to a one-state solution - a Palestine-Israel which is democratic and secular and affords equal rights to all its citizens.

I've just been watching a video of an Israeli bus driver refusing to carry a Palestinian worker with all the 'correct documentation' so that he can return home from work. Apartheid is so 'yesterday', Singer, and should be stamped out as soon as possible.

According to the above responses, it would seem that they have all voted to be haters of Israel. As for the smart comment that David should be living in Israel before he has a right to his say ... perhaps those who criticize Jews for simply wanting to have their own State without constant fear of attack by Hamas should be the ones to experience life in the south of Israel before they make such flippant comments. I have a number of friends living both close to Jerusalem and in the south of Israel. Their children have been terrified by the constant bombardment with Hamas rockets over an extended period with little criticism from the rest of the world. And yet when Israel finally returned fire, there was a huge outcry.

Every individual has the right to their own religion. Since the time of Abraham, the Jewish religion has had as its very foundation God's promise to their ancestor "To your descendants I give this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the Euphrates" - in other words, a considerably greater portion of land than that in which they currently reside. God also told Abraham that he had not forgotten his son born to his wife's servant: Ishmael, the father of all Arab nations. He would have many descendants who would become a great nation. However God made it perfectly clear that it was through Isaac, the son promised to Abraham and his wife Sarah, that his covenant would be established: the covenant of Israel being a blessing to the nations and of his descendants possessing the land mentioned above, It's all there, in the first book of the Torah, which is also the first book in the Christian Bible.

Yes, this is speaking of religion, but it is impossible to separate any Middle East conflict from the religion of the people involved. And unless we understand this covenant promise made around 4000 years ago we can have no real understanding of Judaism - and, indeed, of the current conflict in the Middle East.