From football riots in Amsterdam to raiding a French church, the latest examples of media cover for Israeli atrocity have gone far enough! Right, so one of the biggest mainstays in our observations of Israel, not just over the last year, but particularly so given so much global attention and horror has been focused on what they have been doing in Gaza and latterly the surrounding areas, has been Israel’s fondness for painting itself as the victim each and very time their actions get criticised and this has been most harmful and most pernicious when they hide behind Judaism to do so. They hide behind faith, they hide behind a world religion and any attacks, criticisms or condemnations that get thrown their way has always come with accusations thrown back of antisemitism, of Jew hate, of blood libels and so on and so forth.
Not only has this been particularly harmful to Jews around the world as a whole, people rightly disgusted by Israel, are taking that out on local Jewry, despite the truth of the matter being that Israel is not a Jewish state, it is a Zionist state, and it’s weaponisation of Judaism as a shield to protect itself from all denunciations is false equivalence and I would consider a racist act in and of itself. Yet as much as more and more people are waking up to that fact, needing to because of the damage Israel is doing whilst wrapping in a cotton wool blanket of its own antisemitic making, too many in positions of power and privilege continue to protect Israel from censure, be they in the media or politics as in the last 24 hours or so we’ve seen examples of just how ridiculous some of these sources sound, as well as the consequences – affecting other religions – of Israel being given a free pass based on their supposed faith time after time.
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