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How do you define anti-Semitism? It’s complicated.

Examples of the blurring of anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism abound. In April, the student government at the University of Wisconsin-Madison held a vote on an anti-Israel resolution — on Passover. A student legislator at McGill University tweeted “punch a Zionist today” and somehow survived impeachment; an anti-Zionist student group at the same Montreal university admitted that it used anti-Semitic propaganda to prevent a Jewish — and presumably anti-BDS — candidate from being re-elected to the student government.