The title was, "Disturbing photos show militarization of Israeli children, " and it showed a series of photos from AFP taken in Efrat.
Israel haters like to trot these photos out for the strangest reasons. So, for example, when I tweeted a photo of one of the Jenin "children" holding quite real weapons, without any adult supervision, one apologist for British Labour antisemitism tweeted back:
When I pointed out the obvious differences between the two situations, (you know, one of them was actually using the weapons,) he responded "So the glorification of weaponry with extremely young children of is fine with you"?
Ah, yes. That's what is upsetting him. Not children actually being combatants!
OK, let's go with that "glorification of weaponry" angle.
Every year Britain holds an "Armed Forces Day." Teaching children about the British army is one of its main goals.
So we see photos like this, every year, in British media:
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What is the difference between the smiling Israeli kids with weapons and the smiling British kids with weapons?
Because the Israeli boys are wearing kippot.
What is considered horrible militarization for Jews is not a problem when the children who are fascinated by military hardware live in any other country. Kids visit military museums all around the world, they scramble on tanks and fighter jet cockpits in every country, they climb on cannons in the squares of parks worldwide. No one blinks an eye.
In fact, arguably it is far "worse" in Britain since they have an entire day for the armed forces - there is no IDF Day in Israel.
It's just another double standard for Jews. And it shows, in brilliant fashion, how hypocritical the British anti-Israel Left is, feigning outrage at Israelis doing what their fellow countrymen do on a much larger scale.
