by Brendan O’Neill, spiked
The idea that Israel ‘engineered’ the Moroccan push into Ceuta confirms anti-Zionism is the heir to Jew hate.
Everything they once accused the Jews of, they now accuse the Jewish State of. Jews, they said, lusted after the blood of Christian kids – now they say Israel gleefully slays Palestinian kids. Jews, they said, were the Octopus-like controllers of world affairs – now they say Israel is the wily puppetmaster of the Western powers. Jews, they said, sow disruption everywhere they go – now they say the Jewish nation is sneakily disrupting Europe with floods of illegal immigrants.
The speed with which anti-Zionist cranks latched on to the Ceuta crisis was extraordinary. No sooner had 60,000 men from Morocco swam and kicked their way into the Spanish enclave at the tip of North Africa than both the woke left and crank right had spied the hidden hand of the Jewish State. This was no organic rush across the borders of a foreign nation, they said – it was a ruthless act of sabotage ‘engineered’ by Israel to punish Spain for daring to criticise its ‘genocide’ in Gaza. Shorter version: the Jews did it.
It really is a mania. The Combat Antisemitism Movement found that within the first 72 hours of Ceuta’s storming, more than 100million people on social media had been exposed to the idea that it was a ‘Jewish plot’. The wild conspiracy theory was summed up in a viral meme showing a monstrous Benjamin Netanyahu with a cavernous mouth, out of which poured scores of Moroccans heading for Spain. The Jews vomit Muslims into Europe like they once poured poison down our wells – that’s ‘progressive’ commentary these days, apparently.