I stand with Israel

I had a brief exchange of messages with a British Muslim bloke on social media who had asked me, very politely, why I had posted a picture of the Star of David with the words ‘I Stand With Israel’ underneath. A good question, really – I more usually think this kind of keyboard-warrior grandstanding embarrassing and self-promoting, all that light-a-candle-we-are-the-world- Je-Suis-Charlie cant. I succumbed this time because there was nothing much else I could do to express my horror at Saturday’s savagery and barbarism, other than maybe join the Israel Defense Forces.

Anyway, the online conversation lasted for precisely two exchanges before this courteous and apparently educated man informed me that the Jews controlled the world’s media. There had been no mention on his part, at any point, that the Hamas incursion and resultant bloody and gleeful murder of innocent citizens might have been taking things – y’know – a bit far.