Are we talking about "criticism of Israel"? No. I am a "critic of Israel" myself, and I feel no need to preface my criticisms of Israel's theft and colonization of Palestinian lands with any caveats about Zionism having "nothing to do with Jewishness." (What the heck is "Jewishness" anyway? Certainly not a precise term such as Judaism, Jewish ethnicity or Hebrew nationalism—such vague locutions clue you in that the writer either doesn't know what he's talking about or else has something to hide.)

But what Galloway and PP engage in here isn't "criticism of Israel"—it is anti-Semitism. (The Jews were responsible for Hitler, the Jews are responsible for al-Qaeda, etc.) So yes, this is bogus "pseudo-distancing." It is you who is falling for a propaganda scam, not me. Wake up. I am sick to death of having to explain the obvious.