Tel-Chai Nation

William Shawcross writes in the Jerusalem Post (via Melanie Phillips) about the anti-Israel hatred that's been flooding over the world, both Islamic and western, following the flotilla monstrosity where the boaters, as noted, even yelled "shut up, go back to Auschwitz" at the IDF:

It is not surprising that such racist loathing creates a siege mentality in Israel. Worse is the fact that Israelis know it’s not just ‘the black Islamic banners’ with which they have to contend, but also the irrational hatred of much of the rest of the world.

The realities of Gaza, Israel and the West Bank – where, with Israel’s assistance, the Palestinian economy is booming – are deemed irrelevant to the conventional narrative. Israel is a cartoon villain, beyond sympathy, beyond even redemption.

What is deeply shocking – and frightening – is that the narrative the world accepts is always that of Israel the evildoer... The hatred that Israel arouses is absurd, even obscene... The Muslim world and the Western Left are in an unholy alliance; they do not want to improve the Jewish state, they want to remove it.

Fortunately, there are a few voices of sanity on the left, even in Spain, where anti-semitism is rampant. Pilar Rahola gave an impassioned speech a couple months ago denouncing her fellow leftists for their promotion of such hatred:

Why don’t we see demonstrations against Islamic dictatorships in London, Paris, Barcelona? Or demonstrations against the Burmese dictatorship? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the enslavement of millions of women who live without any legal protection? Why aren’t there demonstrations against the use of children as human bombs where there is conflict with Islam? Why has there been no leadership in support of the victims of Islamic dictatorship in Sudan? Why is there never any outrage against the acts of terrorism committed against Israel? Why is there no outcry by the European left against Islamic fanaticism? Why don’t they defend Israel’s right to exist? Why confuse support of the Palestinian cause with the defense of Palestinian terrorism? An finally, the million dollar question: Why is the left in Europe and around the world obsessed with the two most solid democracies, the United States and Israel, and not with the worst dictatorships on the planet?

The international press does major damage when reporting on the question of the Israeli-Palestinian issue. On this topic they don’t inform, they propagandize. When reporting about Israel the majority of journalists forget the reporter code of ethics. And so, any Israeli act of self-defense becomes a massacre, and any confrontation, genocide. So many stupid things have been written about Israel, that there aren’t any accusations left to level against her. At the same time, this press never discusses Syrian and Iranian interference in propagating violence against Israel; the indoctrination of children and the corruption of the Palestinians. And when reporting about victims, every Palestinian casualty is reported as tragedy and every Israeli victim is camouflaged, hidden or reported about with disdain.

And those are very important points.

Labels: anti-semitism, Europe, islam, Israel, misogyny, Spain