Why leftists hate Israel?

Obviously for a long time Israel is scapegoat to vent hatred and frustration of (nearly) all European left. Here you may find some very frightening facts and the list is far from complete.
how hatred is preached and introduced

Yet I was always a bit intrigued why Israel and how did it start. I remember cold war time and hatred preached by communist in communist regimes against the USA and against capitalism; I know the rethoric of speech against "zionism" in former USSR; against USSR and freedom (strangely enough to combine these two) in China during Mao Zedong "cultural revolution" and against anybody thinking, educated (even remotely) or just wearing glasses by Pol Pot murderous regime (still pyramids of skulls can be seen in many places in Cambodia). Rarely anybody in the Western left cared but they also rarely engaged in such "happenings". This time - as said in above article - it reminds Germany under Nazi regime (BTW Nazi regime was very leftist - it was national socialist party and however it was fighting communists but rather as competitors (which was later proved in 2-year-long cooperation with USSR during war years including shared plans, coordinated attacks and join parades).

But why Israel now? How did it start? Where did it come from? When you look at the map Israel is but tiny spot surrendered by large enemy states, it is smaller than Belgium, 1/4 size of Ireland. Hardly - at the first look - a state all leftists would bother with. And yet....

And now I have just finished a brilliant book by professor Frank Furedi called "Where have all the intellectuals gone. Confronting 21st century philistinism". It is not about Israel at all. It is about leftism. But it contains (to some, but in my opinion significant level) the answer to my above question.

The book shows how leftist inteligensia and activists in many Western countries (notably Western Europe) despise the Enlightment values and have contempt for people. And it happens in mainstream. The book deals with policy (now official in e.g. UK) of "inclusion" (no matter what it is to be participated in, participation is value in its own), of deminishing standards of education, knowledge and culture so everybody can participate, and without effort, in everything. How the existence of Truth was questioned (everybody have their own, there is no such thing as truth for leftist educationers; just incidentally by the virtue of this statement of theirs it is also but a statement and not truth), how the high culture, university standards and good science are accused of being "eliticitist", how debates are avoided as they are "not nice").

Let me give few examples of what he writes about - he describes the highly financed by UK tax payers theatre play "Who is afraid of William Shakespeare?" in which actors make breaks to explain plot (!) and answer questions from viewers. A government report condemning public libreries for having too many books and not enough music fascilities, cafes, meeting rooms etc. (meaning - the libraries are ok but the books aren't; they require effort and can't be consumed without some time and effort and intelectual work spared and people surely are not capable of it - that they were until now skips the record). The official directions for education of children where it is said that "the story taking part in the mountains is unfair towards children from lowlands" and "we should not require children to read and understand stories taking part in different places that they know from personal experience" (on this basis the story of blind climber climbing the summit of Mt McKinley was banned as hurting for children not knowing mountains!!!!). Dorothy Rabinowitz in her report about Harvard law school writes that it is "hard for the 1st grade students to avoid realising official condemnation around everything close to conflict or debate" (for people who are supposed in future to live from participating in conflicts).

The leftists are trying to create the same as communism tried (and Orwell described in famous "1984") - a new breed of men made into one pattern, believing in The State, not asking questions, being infantile and concentrated exclusively on every day personal problems. It is also contempt for people (everybody who has children knows they are curious, wanting to learn, very capable of understanding concepts and imagening different places and circumstances, the only ones officially NOT knowing it are official educators. Children are also easy pray to ideology - thus if school denies them intelectual challenges different fanatics will use it, unfortunately - just look at the story of Hitler Jugend).

The book is brilliant but what has it got to do with Israel? Let me tell you!

Israel is still democracy where people have different opinions and express them, and debate them and fight (vocally) over them. And by far not only when it comes to the conflict between Jews and Arabs. It is when it comes to taxes, and education, and secularity versus religion, and IDF draft and prices of real estates in connection with state policy. Whatever you can think of is highly debated, humans are respected (like in the USA constitution based on Enlightment ideals), believed to be capable of understanding, making their own decisions, taking their citizenship responsibilities.
Israel is also the state which - despite being so small - has wonderful science. It is hard to find modern piece of knowledge, technology, medicine or agriculture in developing which Israel would NOT participate.
Children are generally treated as future of the society and their capabilities are not questioned and individual decisions regarding the kind of education for them (e.g. more religious or more secular; more scientific or more humanist)  are left with the caretakers. And in spite of the lack of policy of inclusion for the sake of inclusion education has high standards (something hated by the leftists) and is valued (at the time when brilliant but demanding art like classical music is more and more ridiculed in Europe).

Is it strange that of all places in the world Israel is hated by leftists? It is the antithesis of what they try to do and how to design and create "brave new world".
Maybe because Israel has real problems and chellanges it is not susceptible to this modern nonsense of inclusion against will and for the pure sake of inclusion, design education for everybody (hello, we are different) and diminishing scientific standards so nobody feels excluded (even if they are not interested in science and not knowing they should feel excluded at all).
What Israel does (and doesn't do) and what it achieves is showing what the leftists try to do for what it is.
What Islamic regimes in some Arab countries do is not dangerous at all from this point of view - no standards, no science, unificated education (for those receiving it) in Islamic spirit... Welcome to the brave new world....

And the above (in my opinion) shows why leftists hate Israel, but also what kind of society they want for us and our children. It already was tried. 100,000,000 people paid with lives for the experiment of communism. I am personally afraid it has not all died yet and communism or national-socialism or fascism (the very term "totalitarianism" as proud description of what state should be comes from Mussolini) didn't say the last word.

Another reason to stand for Israel!!!!!!