Melanie Phillips on Zionhass
She doesn't call it that, but that's what it is:
The anti-Zionist madness of our time is thus far more pernicious even than
hatred of Israel, pathologically obsessive and malevolent as that is in itself.
Bad enough that for so many people in Britain and the west, Israel has been
successfully demonised as a pariah state on the basis of a unique systematic
campaign of falsehoods, distortions and libels about its history and behaviour,
untruths which have nevertheless become the unchallenged basis for public
discussion.
But far worse even than this is the assumption underlying this lazy
defamation, that Zionism is a creed that is itself a particularly aggressive
kind of racism or colonialism. This vicious prejudice has turned truth, reason
and decency inside out. The right of the Jews to their own historic national
homeland has been recast, entirely falsely, as a usurpation of the ‘right’ to
that land of ‘Palestinians’ – who never actually existed as a discrete
people in the first place. Those Jews who are Zionists now find themselves as a
result cast as racists and social pariahs – merely for asserting the right of
the Jewish people to self-determination in their own historic homeland.
Those who are driven by a vicious and bigoted hatred have thus been allowed
to cast the victims of their hatred as themselves hateful people. Zionist Jews
are thus defamed and victimised many times over – and by those who have the gall
to claim the moral high ground in doing so, from luvvies Emma Thompson and Ken
Loach to the boycotters and thugs who harass and bully Zionist Jews on
campus.
This is a truly chilling situation, reminiscent of the mass brainwashing and
hijacking of thought that took place in the Soviet Union – not surprising when
you consider the Soviet-Arab axis that back in the seventies set out to destroy
Israel by capturing and subverting the western mind...
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