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They said the country of Isreal, not Jewish people. This only makes sense if you automatically equate the two. I understand the discomfort of proximity there, but you're mischaracterizing what the other person said.
I am not saying the person is anti-Semitic, I'm saying it's a dog whistle and I am criticizing their use of it. There is no mischaracterization going on here.
My "There is no micharacterization going on here" shirt is raising a lot of questions etc etc
It turns out I was expressing a false belief.
I had falsely believed that calling Jews "dogs" was a long anti-Semitic tradition. I did more research and discovered that actually historically they were called rats and lice and very few examples exist of anti-semitics tropes comparing Jews and dogs.
The most salient example of that was an American trend to hang a sign on your shop that said "No Jews or dogs allowed", but that doesn't meet the standard of what I had believed.