The war against the Jews (19)
I really can’t bring myself to wade into those sewers known as the Guardian and Independent, but Tom Gross, who has a strong stomach, provides samples here of the poisonous effluent they are pumping out about Israel — thanks in part to the usual suspects whose Jewishness is not so much ancestry as pathology. Vile beyond measure — and beyond all reason.
The Independent’s Johann Hari, who figures prominently in this catalogue of shame, recently won the Orwell Prize for journalism. Tom Gross notes that Hari cited a fabricated quote by the Israel-hating Israeli academic Ilan Pappe. This was actually the second time he had done so, despite the fact that the first occasion 18 months ago provoked the (himself controversial) Israeli ‘New Historian’ Benny Morris to write this letter to the paper denouncing the quote as a fabrication. And here is another informed critique of Hari’s piece. Maybe someone should ask the organisers of the Orwell Prize (which I myself have won in the past) how they reached their decision.
Meanwhile, the Hendon Times reports that two orthodox Jews were stabbed in two separate, random and unprovoked incidents in Golders Green last Friday. A man called Mohamed Jama Ahmed was arrested. And yet the Metropolitan Police said these attacks were
not being treated as faith hate crimes.Of course not! Just another coincidence, wasn't it, in Britain’s decent, rational and principled society, whose elevated tone is set by its up-market media and the completely unbigoted people who work for it.