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For decades the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has dominated the news - and it's sparked strong discussions here in Jersey. Despite diplomatic efforts, peace talks and activism on both sides violence in that part of the world continues.

Most recently we heard disputes about the Boycott Divestment Sanction movement which calls for people to stop buying Israeli goods. Palestinian campaigners say it aims to put pressure on the Israeli government, particularly over the building of settlements in Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories, which has been condemned by the United Nations. The state of israel says it's a racist movement which seeks to destroy the country.

Up to now commentators have separated criticism of the Israeli state and the Jewish community - as not all people living in Israel are Jews, and not all Jews support the Israeli state.

But in a recent letter to the Jersey Evening Post, Steven Regal, the head of the island's Jewish congregation said he thinks that a new kind of anti-semitism is emerging - he believes anti-jewish attitudes from the 1930s and forties have become hidden behind growing anti-Israel sentiment and movements.

So are those - even on our own doorstep - who criticise the state of Israel - such as activists who aspire to realise an independent state of Palestine - being anti-Semitic?

Well that's subject of this next report by Olivia Le Poidevin. Please know the views featured are controversial and potentially upsetting - and the terms used are disputed by both sides.

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