The Palestinian war against Israel is no longer something the West can regard as a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom they know nothing.At a recent congressional hearing in America, Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has a long history of antisemitic and anti-Israel remarks, equated the United States and Israel with Hamas and the Taliban in committing "crimes against humanity." When 12 Jewish Democrats accused her of bigotry, she and her allies accused them of racism and Islamophobia.Any criticism of Muslims elicits such taunts from so-called progressives, many if not most of whom also regard Israel with distaste or worse.
Emboldened by such impunity, the lies and incitement continue. This week, Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) slandered Israel by saying it "doesn't value Palestinian lives" and accusing it falsely of "a decades-long ethnic-cleansing project."
Meanwhile, as a direct result of such demonization of Israel and its associated Jew-baiting, attacks on American Jews are at record levels...
Palestinianism is driving antisemitism and Islamization in an even more shocking way in Britain, where attacks on Jews are running at even higher levels.
Antisemitism and Palestinianism feed each other. Britain's Jewish Chronicle weekly has obtained a recording of remarks made by members of a convoy traveling from Bradford to London for a pro-Palestinian demonstration last weekend. At this rally, where speakers made repeated claims that Hamas was a legitimate resistance force, placards were calling Israel a "Nazi state" and asking: "What is antisemitic in saying that all Jews support violence and imperialism?"
On the tape, Muslim activists referred to Israel's new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett as "a bigger Satan" than Benjamin Netanyahu, claimed the UN was being manipulated by a shady network biased in Israel's favor and called Israel supporters dajjals, or mythological demons. One month earlier, a convoy flying Palestinian flags drove through Jewish areas of London with activists shouting: "F*ck the Jews! Rape their daughters!"
Yet many Labour party politicians are helping fuel this venomous hysteria and incitement. During a debate on "Israel-Palestine" on Monday, Labour MPs called for a boycott of Israel.
Addressing Bennett, Bradford MP Naz Shah, who has a history of anti-Jewish remarks, described Israel's understanding of the right to self-defense as "perverted." She said if any more "Palestinian blood" was "unjustly spilled," she would push for Israel to be tried for war crimes at the International Criminal Court.
Labour MPs regularly take part in demonstrations where marchers chant for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jews. At one such rally in Bradford earlier this month that featured an appearance by Shah, activists chanted in Arabic: "God, make us part of the mujahideen in Palestine," and "God, lift the curse of the Jews off the Muslims in Palestine."
Not only is Palestinianism fueling anti-Jewish hysteria and attacks, but it is also increasingly cowing the British into acceding to its dictates, which fly in the face of fairness, decency, and reason.
So extraordinarily, a foreign issue in which Britain is not involved is insinuating itself into the center of British politics and culture, corrupting both with its agenda of obsessional bigotry against Israel and the Jewish people.
In driving the spike in antisemitism, Palestinianism is opening up a posthumous Nazi front against the Jews.
If this sounds outlandish and monstrous, it is. Yet the evidence suggests that it is nevertheless an all-too-realistic description of what is now taking place.
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