While the U.S. Mulls a Response to Syria, Iran Mulls a Response to Israel
When red lines converge.
April 13, 2018
A whipping boy for the sins of Western history.
The ongoing protests at the Gaza security fence, and Israel’s efforts to contain them, have once again brought people to the streets of European cities—and even more people to their social-media accounts—to express their outrage at the Jewish state. Noting that these same people are largely indifferent to, for instance, Turkey’s persecution of Kurds or Syria’s gassing of civilians, Brendan O’Neill asks what makes Israel the object of so much hatred:
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A whipping boy for the sins of Western history.
And Palestinian attempts to fight it.
Minimizing the Shoah while making heroes of its perpetrators.
Its anti-Judaism is not peripheral but central to its theology.