It's so precious when Yvonne Ridley pretends to care about Jews

Yvonne Ridley wrote an op-ed:

Anti-Semitism is very real, of that there is no doubt, but the greatest threat to Jewish people today comes not from those on the political left who criticise the Zionist state of Israel. It comes from those on the far right whose pernicious influence is spreading across North America and Europe.

This is obvious to reasonable political observers. However, the facts are being masked by the pro-Israel lobby which insists on conflating anti-Semitism with criticism of Zionism, the ideology which underpins colonial Israel. It is enough simply to mention Israel's brutal military occupation of Palestine to incur the lobby's wrath. Ironically, though, this Zionist witch-hunt fails to protect Jews.

We should all be deeply concerned by this sinister development. Not only is this an attack on free speech and one step away from book burning, but it is also diverting attention from the real threat to Jews from right-wing anti-Semites who feel so emboldened that they have brazenly turned their guns on synagogues and carried out other atrocities against Jews.

See? She cares about Jews!

The person who has written for Iranian media that has denied the Holocaust!

The person who once called Jewish politician David Miliband "a gutless little weasel who lost more than his foreskin when he was circumcised"!

The person who said, “The Zionists have tentacles everywhere"!

The person who mourned Osama Bin Laden and expressed support for Al Qaeda leader Zarqawi!

The person who once told children on stage a blood libel:

 I want you to imagine, well what I was going to say that I want you to imagine they are my children but they are our children, they are our children. And this is what Barbara Lubin wrote in her email to me today. She got through the Rafah border after queuing for 10 hours and she said ‘out of all the devastation that I have seen so far, there is one story in particular that I think the world needs to hear. I met a mother who was at home with her ten children when Israeli soldiers entered the house. The soldiers told her she had to choose five of her children to give as a gift to Israel. As she screamed in horror they repeated the demand, and told her she could chose or they would choose for her. Then these soldiers murdered five of her children in front of her.’ The concept of Jewish morality is truly dead. We can be fascist, terrorist, the Nazis, just like anyone else. Can you imagine the mother’s dilemma being told choose! Can you imagine the horror of being told choose! Which child should live and which child to die.

But perhaps the most impressive part of her pretending to care about Jews is the venue for her op-ed. It is Al Resalah, a Hamas newspaper. And (despite press reports to the contrary) Hamas has never renounced its antisemitic founding charter.

(Of course, this op-ed is not in Al Resalah's Arabic edition. It is purely meant for idiotic Westerners who might actually believe that she cares about Jews and only means "Zionists" when she says that they should be hunted down. 

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