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05 Feb 2009 12:30 pm
One-Eyed In Gaza
Norm Geras:
To hold Israel to the standards of international humanitarian law, the
elementary standards entailed by codes of human rights, is only right
and proper. But to hold Israel to those standards, but not also its
regional adversaries, suggests a special hostility towards it
that needs some explanation. Not all of this hostility can be accounted
anti-Semitic. But some of it is. Only the blindest can ignore the plain
manifestations of anti-Semitism now evident both amongst Israel's
regional adversaries and within the worldwide protests against Israel's
actions in Gaza and disfiguring them. As worrying is the fact that the
same liberal-left aforementioned that populates these protests and in
doing so looks away from the crimes of Israel's opponents, a
liberal-left that is, to a man and a woman, proud of its anti-racism,
proud of its sensitivity to 'Islamophobia', is silent about this growth
of anti-Semitism, shamefully silent, having forgotten in just the one
case its avowed duty of solidarity with the victims of prejudice
everywhere.
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