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 November 26, 2003

Our Exhausted Patience

Nobody, but nobody excels in hypocrisy like the British. Last week, in a feat of cynicism that left this reader gobsmacked, the Incredible Shrinking Kingdom's extreme left screed, The Guardian, which in the course of the last decade has done more to relegitimize anti-Semitism/anti-Zionism than any other British media entity save the BBC, spoke out against - you guessed it - anti-Semitism. In an editorial titled Our Dulled Nerve the editors called upon the liberal left (that would be them) to "rediscover its old values." Well they needn't trouble themselves. The Breft's intellectual dishonesty and moral bankruptcy is alive, well, and without peer.

Why is the liberal left not sufficiently concerned about the growth of anti-semitism? On this year's anti-war march in Paris, Jewish peace activists were beaten up by other demonstrators. There were less dramatic confrontations on London's million-strong march. It did not matter to the attackers that Jewish writers and activists have been vocal against the Iraq war. Nor did the attackers care that many criticise the current Israeli government's policies towards the Palestinians. Their victims were targets just because they are Jews.

Even the police are now being more proactive in pursuing people spreading virulent anti-semitic literature or inciting religious hatred. Could not the liberal left, which in an earlier era vigilantly sought to protect Jews from prejudice and bigotry, rediscover its old values?

Shame on you gentlemen, for not being forthcoming about the role that your own newspaper has played in resurrecting this perfidy.

The Guardian is the newspaper of British intellectuals.

[Related: Arguing The Merits Of The Case UK Style . Orwell Award . The Breft]

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