I don’t have a choice now but to quote myself, if only for the reason that I haven’t seen somebody else saying this. It was regarding the hysterical shrieking by Naomi Klein (“Israel: Boycott, Divest, Sanction“) that I have asked a fairly simple question: “Don’t you feel some words missing in that headline and clamoring to be added – to continue the list of punishments?“.
Now this line (of timidity? of fear to get out of the closet? of breaking a taboo? – I wonder) has eventually been crossed – by quite a few of British “intellectuals” in this letter. It starts with:
The massacres in Gaza are the latest phase of a war that Israel has been waging against the people of Palestine for more than 60 years.
I hope I don’t have to explain the significance of the number 60 in this quote.
I don’t need to go on about this letter. It’s about the need for Israel to lose the war, well – it’s in fact about the desirability of a genocide, as David Hirsh explains.
It is not a good time to write more about the impact of this letter. It is a good time only to state that the fog is dissipating and the lines (drawn centuries ago) are coming out in all their blessed vividness.
Fine with me.
Cross-posted on SimplyJews.
