I think Stevein this is a post from an Arab nationalist point of view. Israel does owe its existence to a certain conjunctural factors of imtermational imperialism - both the USSR and the USA promoted its cause initially as they both looked for a reliable bridgehead in the richest oil producing region in the world. The dispossession of the Palestinians via a series of atrocities was the result. But why pick out only Israeli imperialism and its undoubted ruthless brutality? What about Saudi Arabia's indiscriminate bombing and blockade of Yemen? What about the murderous Assad's regime being secured via Russian air power? We live in the epoch of imperialism and the various ruling classes/bourgeoisies (including even the Palestinian) will use the nationalist card to get people to fight and die for them. The solution to the Palestinian tragedy will not come within the confines of capitalism and imperialism but only with its overthrow. And then the question will not be about a one state or a two state solution in the Israel/Palestine territory but a no state solution as a new cooperative mode of production replaces national frontiers, exploitation and oppression.

That is not what the IHRA says. It says that calling Israel's foundation "a racist state" is anti-semitic. The current Israeli government seems increasingly racist but less so than Salvini in Italy, Modi in India, the current Polish and Hungarian leaders (who are anti-semitic despite Netanyahu's overtures to them), the Buddhists in Myanmar etc etc. Stereotyping or labelling all people of the same nationality culture or whatever is a way of robbing of them of both their personal and class identity. After the Heysel disaster in 1985 we were in Italy (we were actually watching the match on TV it with Italian school and many people who were British (not us) were attacked that week. But being lumped with those who were responsible for that disaster was a small taste of the casual racism that all minorities in any culture have to face. Communist don't enter such games. Corbyn's achilles heel is that he has shared platforms with Holocaust deniers and outright anti-semites in his capacity as Chair of Stop the War (a campaign originally explicitly set up in cooperation with Muslim organisations in the UK over the Iraq War - although I suspect many of these have since distanced themselves from it). For some in that organisation supporting the Palestinians meant calling for the destruction of the state of Israel. We are for the destruction of all states but taking sides in an inter-imperialist struggle is part and parcel of the methodology of the capitalist left. For a saner view you might like to read this excellent article by a left communist in the new online US journal Intransigence. It is one of the best I have ever read. intransigence.org

So what? In the epoch of imperialism we are not in favour of national self-determination for any state - we are internationalists and for the abolition of all states. That's it. If you want to enter into the niceties of how the bourgeoisie express it that's up to you but it is not the issue for us.