Hatred of Jews = Hatred of Israel

This column by Melanie Phillips about the vile, vicious antisemitism in England is a must-read.  Unfortunately, the Jew-haters won't be reading it. Here's an excerpt:

"On Sunday, London’s Jews were subjected to four hours of drive-by intimidation directed at the entire community.

A convoy of cars flying the Palestinian flag drove through one Jewish area of north London after another, with occupants screaming through a megaphone: “F*** the Jews, rape their daughters” and “Go back to Poland”.

According to the Campaign against Antisemitism, the convoy then reached Downing Street to join a demonstration against Israel which featured numerous antisemitic  signs including several equating Israel to Nazis. Some demonstrators wore Hamas-style headbands, and one was filmed yelling that Jews should “Go back to all the sh***y countries you came from”.

British politicians and other public figures were shocked at the Jew-baiting convoy.  Shocked!
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Even now, however, few in public life can bring themselves to acknowledge the symbiotic connection between hatred of Israel and hatred of the Jews — and that the latter creates the former, and not the other way round.
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Yet there’s still an absolute refusal in many quarters to acknowledge that the hysteria against Israel can only be explained — in its demonic irrationality and determination to libel the Israelis as child-killers, while excusing those who really are murdering and procuring the deaths of children and other innocents — as a profoundly unhinged obsession with demonising the Jewish people.

To repeat: there is no other conflict, issue, people or country in the world which has ever been subjected to such a campaign of systematic, obsessional and paranoid falsehoods and inversion of historical, legal and demonstrably factual reality. This is a unique pathology, directed uniquely at both the Jewish people and the Jewish state because it is the same unique disorder with the same unique characteristics. And it has one name. Antisemitism."

All I can hope for is that Israel finally obliterates Hamas and these other terrorist-Nazis this time and shuts up all the terrorist sympathizers for good.