How perfect was it that Amnesty International’s report on Israel’s ‘genocide’ in Gaza landed on the same day that the war in Syria got even bloodier. As Islamist rebels swarmed Hama in the west of Syria, a city of a million souls, days before they seized Damascus itself, the virtuous of Amnesty had only one thing on their minds: Israel. It’s official: nothing, not even the return of carnage to Syria, can dislodge the activist set’s obsession with the Jewish State.
Rarely has the Israel myopia of the campaigning classes been so starkly exposed
Rarely has the Israel myopia of the campaigning classes been so starkly exposed. Five hundred thousand people have perished in the Syria calamity since it started in 2011. Many millions have been forcibly displaced, fleeing towns turned to rubble by the warring forces of Islamist militants and Assad’s heavies and their Russian backers. Yet look to the pious left and all you’ll hear is: ‘Did you see what the IDF did in Khan Younis this week?!’
Amnesty’s report is titled ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza.
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