At least 9,000 have been diagnosed with the coronavirus, and 429 have died. Unofficial estimates suggest a figure of 1 million who have been affected by it. And yet, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has called the virus “a blessing.”
Author: Melanie Phillips
The public has understood that for decades, they have been offered only one basic story: the progressive worldview that bears no relation to their own lives and aspirations, but which has become the default position of the entire political establishment across the now obsolete left-right divide.
Just because George Soros is a magnet for anti-Semites does not mean there aren’t well-founded grounds for complaints against his behavior.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Christians are safe. Yet some churches dump on the Jewish state, not only assisting the mortal threat it faces from Palestinian Muslims, but ignoring the threat those people pose to the church itself.
In no other conflict have aggressors been invited by their victims to remain citizens of the country they’ve been trying to wipe off the map.
U.S President Donald Trump is telling them to suck it up or lose because the Israelis are going to get what they need to survive.
It’s clear that all this Holocaust memorializing and education hasn’t put anti-Semitism back in its putrid box.
In this upside-down moral universe, genocidal fanatics, whose dissembling enables liberals to take refuge in the fantasy of a trouble-free solution, must be negotiated with and appeased.
What’s shocking is that so many are shocked. What planet have they all been living on?
The Muslim world is deeply jealous of the singular status of Jew-hatred as the ultimate bigotry.
Many think that anti-Semitism is a prejudice against Jews as people, whereas anti-Zionism and Israel-bashing are legitimate attacks on a political project.
The only way to end what is essentially an Arab war of extermination against Israel is to call out the Palestinians on their fundamental lies and to treat them not as statesmen-in-waiting, but as international pariahs.
Incendiary Jew-hatred has become the signature cause of “progressives,” who tell themselves that targeting Israeli settlements proves their own virtue by supporting a righteous cause.
Support for the Palestinian cause is now the default position across the West’s progressive classes, including for many Jews.
More than 60 percent of Israeli Arabs turned out and returned an estimated 13 seats for the Joint Arab List, up from 10 at last April’s election.
