Part of the reason I don't really bother debating with or arguing with antisemites--of any type, really--is simple.
A major part of the basis of Jew-hate is that Jews are innately liars, axiomatically duplicitous. That we know "the Truth" and yet reject it, so anything we say is coming from a place of intentional deception.
In Christianity, Jews reject Jesus, and it becomes the basis of multiple antisemitic libels in later centuries (host desecration, among others) that the Jews do recognize Jesus as the Messiah, but reject him--and truth--for reasons that can only amount to "innately evil liars".
In Islam, Jews reject Mohammed, and it was and still is taught that the Jews moved into the region of Arabia "because they thought a prophet would come" (and not because of Rome ethnically cleansing us from our homeland), and that "the Jews recognized Muhammed as the prophet they had apparently been waiting for, and vowed to be his enemy as long as they lived" (more or less verbatim quote from the ten minute mark on this video, which was sent to me by someone trying to prove how much he "respected" Judaism). Same dynamic as the Christianity example--we somehow know that their Truth is correct, but reject it for... reasons.
And while I could go on with other ideologies, those two are the biggest ones which underpin so much of what came later.
So when you have a modern day Hamasnik screaming that "Zionism is the greatest example of antisemitism!" or other things of that ilk, it's the same thought process as the anti-Jewish hate that goes back over a thousand years: "Jews know The Truth, yet reject it in order to cling to their wickedness."
And, tying that to my original point...
If it is not just assumed, but taken as fact that I am a liar and innately so, that everything I say is a lie, that nothing I say can be trusted, because I, as a Jew, know The Truth and reject it...
Why bother wasting my effort?
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