This is the whole problem with the why-are-you-singling-out-Israel business (which has, itself, become "omnipresent"). It singles out the Palestinians. It stigmatises them and their supporters, and them alone.

You can say all you like that it's all right to criticise Israel and you can mean it all you like, but the necessary, inevitable consequence of demanding people's bona fides in this way is that criticism of Israel is not just muted but delegitimised.

If critics are placed under suspicion in this way as a matter of routine (which is what happens, and is bound to happen) then the whole business of objecting to the subjugation and dispossession of the Palestinians is similarly placed under suspicion. There is no way round this.

Well there is, which is that Israel should be defended like any other country, with its policy, its actions and its history judged on their own merits and their own legality.

So if you ask me who else I have objected to, before I object to what Israel does, the answer will be that it's none of your business. I won't make any performative declarations for you. And if you want to throw things at me then throw them.

We've been singling out the Palestinians for more than seventy years now. That's the reality, and it's a reality that may come horribly to a head next month. And all the hounding of their sympathisers has helped that happen.