It’s as if Marshall Petain is back in power and stirring up anti-Jewish hatred to please Hitler. On Monday, I read extensively from a Mick Hume column in the UK Times. The guy is historically a Palestinian sympathizer, but he writes about this phenomenon of piling on Israel – and blames it on a loss of western conviction.
There’s a reason we see the same gay rights radicals, environmental extremists and anti-capitalists rally to the terrorist cause. These people all share a hatred for America and the western way of life – or they’ve fallen for the oft-heard whine, “The Israelis are using the tanks and the Palestinians are using rocks. That’s unfair.”
Just look at how afraid people are to say that there was a “massacre” in Jenin, a myth nuked by John Podhoretz in his Sunday New York Post column. It’s fashionable to express this anti-Semitism on the left today. It’s as if all those cries of “Never Again!” I heard as a child are going sadly unheeded.