What is happening to
our country? When did we give up on truth, democracy and Western values? When
did we choose to reward terrorists, butchers, kidnappers and barbarians? Why is
Britain turning its back not just on Israel, a democracy on the front line against
Islamism, but also, increasingly, against its Jewish citizens?
The explosion in
anti-Semitic sentiment and crimes in the UK is a national emergency, an
existential threat to the liberal society painstakingly constructed since the
1850s, yet, unlike other kinds of racism, it is dismissed or ignored. Why? Is
it elite prejudice of the sort Emile Zola exposed in France all those years
ago? Is it electoral politics? Can’t Labour see that it is making everything
worse with its unfair, mendacious attacks on Israel?
The double-standards
are sickening. There was anger that Isaac Herzog, Israel’s Left-wing president,
is in Britain meeting Sir Keir Starmer; yet the PM’s tête-à-tête with
the Palestinian Authority dictator Mahmoud Abbas, holder of an anti-Semitic PhD from a Soviet
university and proponent of pay-per slay support for the families of
Palestinian terrorists, was uncontroversial. How can this be right?
And why doesn’t
Starmer put maximum pressure on Hamas to release its hostages and quit Gaza,
and make the case for a multinational, Arab-backed temporary government to
rebuild it, rather than promising to unconditionally recognise a virtual
Palestinian state that would still be committed to Israel’s obliteration? Does
Labour only pretend to care about Gazan civilians?
Britain, courtesy of
a ruling class that has lost its moral bearings, home of Left-wing broadcasters that no longer
pretend to be objective, is now among the global centres of Israelophobia.
The Jewish state is always on trial, guilty until proven
innocent.
The savage Hamas
blackmailers who were targeted in Qatar rebranded themselves as “the
negotiation team”, even though they were the terror group’s most hardline
leaders. Each one of their blood libels, of their incendiary calumnies, goes
around the world, lapped up by a gullible audience that never learns. A little
more mud sticks every time. Israel isn’t committing a genocide, as the Foreign
Office has quietly admitted, and yet 45 per cent of voters believe, absurdly,
that Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews.
Israel needs to fight
anew for its legitimacy every day. It is never given the benefit of the doubt.
Britain, America, France: all made terrible errors in wartime, all are plagued
by their fair share of rogues, and yet few believe that these nations have
forfeited the right to exist as a result.
There is no empathy,
no contextualisation, no historical knowledge, no interest in all the times
Israel sought to agree a land-for-peace swap but was rejected. Israel must be
perfect, more moral than anybody else, or else it will be demonised, vilified and
sanctioned. Our Western-centric, secular intelligentsia refuses to accept that
Palestinian elites are rejectionists. They don’t want a two-state solution:
they want control, from the river to the sea, with the Jews ethnically
cleansed.
Hamas pioneered a new
form of warfare, squandering billions in aid to build a network of tunnels
under homes, hospitals and mosques. This will be studied by military historians
for centuries; Israel has so far only destroyed 35-40 per cent of all these tunnels.
Gaza’s population is used as human shields, in the hope that as many as
possible are killed to score propaganda points, while the terrorists hide in
tunnels. It’s an obscenity, and the West falls for it.
Anti-Semitism is a
virulent, ever-evolving pathogen. As a form of social contagion, it is ideal
for social media, with its fake or misleading viral images, incendiary
accusations and propaganda campaigns. A world where critical reasoning has been
superseded by short-form videos is an ideal ecosystem for the resurgence of a
medieval hatred based on rumour, gossip and hearsay.
In today’s
post-Protestant woke world, which worships a certain form of weakness and
glamourises the oppressed, Israeli Jews are too strong. Their country
represents everything the woke detest: a patriotic, demographically healthy
nation-state that believes in strong borders and military virtues, all with a
biblical backdrop.
The Left, which used
to see Israel as a case study in decolonisation and anti-imperialism, a
beautiful story of the return of a dispossessed people to its indigenous
homeland, has switched sides. It now falsely categorises Israel as a
“settler-state”, like the US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, countries that
it deems to be axiomatically racist and guilty of “white supremacy” and
“genocide”.
To the woke, the
Balfour declaration, a great moment, was Britain’s original sin. The Labour
Government should be fighting this tidal wave of madness; instead, it is trying
to ride it. The scale of its betrayal is off the charts.
Allister Heath. Full article at
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/10/labour-betrayal-british-jews-historic-disgrace/
