This Is "Intellectual Conservative Opinion"?

One Bernie Reeves relates a decades-old story here at Intellectual Conservative Politics and the most important part was this:

In 1982, before this sea change began to swell, the Jewish Defense League came to call on me. The three gentlemen asked if I knew what the JDL was. I answered I certainly have heard of you, but was unclear on your role. The visitors said they monitor area media wherever Jews live, seeking out reportage they construe as anti-Semitic. I said I was not an anti-Semite, and they said they didn't think so, either, as readers of my city weekly Spectator magazine in Raleigh, NC. But there was a problem about an editorial I had written that caused them concern.

And then I knew my crime. I had written that I was furious that the Israeli Prime Minister had refused to meet with the American ambassador over some issue – and I didn't like it. My reasoning was, the US funds and secures the existence of Israel, making them to me, if not a vassal state, at least a dependent entity on the largess of America. I also wrote that Israel had been sauntering around the region in jack boots ordering everyone about, and worse, had engaged in espionage against the US. When caught, remorse was replaced by righteousness, as if Israel answers to a higher calling as the Chosen People. In their view, the usual rules of statecraft don't apply.

I left this comment there:

I think they thought you were antisemitic because you used the term "jackboots", which, which most people, not only Jews, would immediately connect to Nazi imagery, or at the least, German army imagery. American soldiers are never dressed in "jackboots". So they presumed that you were comparing the IDF to the Wehrmacht SS and that, my dear sir, is not only wrong - not in the least because Israel doesn't establish concentration camps or worse - but antisemtic.