It has crossed the line, time and again, from criticism of Israel into frothing bigotry against Israelis. From peacenik opposition to Israel’s war on Hamas to an ugly, wild-eyed view of Israel as a uniquely barbarous nation, more wicked and deceitful than all the others.
Serious commentators have described Israel as a nation in the grip of “genocidal mania”.
Posters of the Israelis kidnapped on 7 October have been clawed down in virtually every city, because apparently even the innocent citizens of Israel are suspect, “problematic”, undeserving of our sympathy.
Israeli culture and wares are feverishly boycotted by the pseudo-virtuous of our chattering classes. They meticulously forcefield their entire lives from the output of this most unholy nation like medieval mystics praying to keep the devil at bay.
The impression given by this army of “pro-Palestine” influencers is that Israel is a fallen nation. And its people are under the spell of “savagery”. And everything it produces is morally compromised, if not morally poisonous, and thus you must boycott, avoid, destroy.
That some in Europe have taken this polite-society bigotry one step further and physically attacked the citizens of this supposedly diseased nation is shocking, but not surprising.
Israel-hate is a la mode in intellectual circles across Europe. That mob in Amsterdam was its armed wing.
R&I ~ MJM
It has crossed the line, time and again, from criticism of Israel into frothing bigotry against Israelis. From peacenik opposition to Israel’s war on Hamas to an ugly, wild-eyed view of Israel as a uniquely barbarous nation, more wicked and deceitful than all the others.
Serious commentators have described Israel as a nation in the grip of “genocidal mania”.
Posters of the Israelis kidnapped on 7 October have been clawed down in virtually every city, because apparently even the innocent citizens of Israel are suspect, “problematic”, undeserving of our sympathy.
Israeli culture and wares are feverishly boycotted by the pseudo-virtuous of our chattering classes. They meticulously forcefield their entire lives from the output of this most unholy nation like medieval mystics praying to keep the devil at bay.
The impression given by this army of “pro-Palestine” influencers is that Israel is a fallen nation. And its people are under the spell of “savagery”. And everything it produces is morally compromised, if not morally poisonous, and thus you must boycott, avoid, destroy.
That some in Europe have taken this polite-society bigotry one step further and physically attacked the citizens of this supposedly diseased nation is shocking, but not surprising.
Israel-hate is a la mode in intellectual circles across Europe. That mob in Amsterdam was its armed wing.
R&I ~ MJM