Leftists Aren’t the Only Perpetrators of Anti-Semitism in the World
Her ear’s a bit off, perhaps because she’s trying too hard (”Most of my circle is…wealthy”). The hatred of Israel by the Brit ruling classes — Tory toffs to oiks like Galloway and Prescott, it seems to make no difference — is unthinking and automatic, which oddly helps make it less sinister. It’s a type of hate that often dissipates fast in the face of a simple challenge: Why do you hate Jews? The most you’ll likely hear in reply is incoherent mumbling about (rare nowadays)’the King David Hotel’ and (more common)a Palestinian homeland. In the world of pure hate it adds up to a small hill of beans. I’ve met Heseltine and I don’t like him, but I’d hesitate to label him anti-Semitic. Sometimes, a jerk is just a jerk.
The visceral hatred that drives British Jews into the shadows, wisely in my view, though it’s easy to say from my WASPy pearch, comes from the odd union of the far left, Islam and the Brit MSM — above all, the BBC/Guardian/Independent axis.
