Melanie Phillips on Anti-Israel Sentiment

You have to go to Smooth Stone to read this interview with the great Melanie Phillips on the irrationality of Jew-hatred. She writes,

“The treatment of Israel…is unique in its irrationality and moral and historical inversion. It takes a nation that is the historic victim of aggression and blames it for jeopardizing peace in the region and causing Islamic extremism worldwide – despite demonstrable evidence that this is simply untrue. It accuses Israel, wholly falsely, of “apartheid” and ethnic cleansing when Israeli Arabs have full civil rights and the Palestinian population has increased many times over – and when Jews are excluded from parts of the Arab world (including the putative state of Palestine).”

Read it all.