by David Virtue, VOL
Antisemitism has gone global.
In one country after another, Jews are being excoriated over Israel’s conduct of the war in the Middle East. Israel stands accused of genocide, of baby-killing, of deliberately starving the citizens of Gaza. October 7, 2023 — the slaughter of some 1,200 Israelis and the dragging of roughly 250 hostages into the tunnels of Gaza — is now brazenly repositioned as payback for Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. Never mind that two million Arab citizens live inside Israel in peace and prosperity, with seats in the Knesset, judges on its Supreme Court, and doctors in every Israeli hospital. Israel alone is blamed for the devastation of Gaza, with barely a mention of Hamas, which started the war and has hidden behind Gaza’s civilians ever since.
Little is said of Hezbollah, or the Houthis, or of the evil empire of Iran, whose declared purpose is the annihilation of the Jewish state. A democratic nation no bigger than New Jersey is held responsible for all the ills of the Middle East.
Meanwhile, the pressure ratchets up on Israel to accept a two-state solution that would inevitably see more rockets raining down on the small democratic state.
Israel cannot win. Israel, it seems, is not permitted to win.
The Church of England Joins the Prosecution
Now the Church of England has joined the pile-on, condemning Israel in terms unthinkable a decade ago.