Antipathy for Israel among Europeans is increasing and alarming as campaigns of de-legitimization and vilification spread across the world, fueled by Muslim propaganda and money, whetted by the hunger for oil.
Many readers and others are sending me the article about Oliver Stone's latest anti-Semitic comments, in which he says Jews control the American media.
It is apparent that since the flotilla incident, the Israeli public and most of the open minded observers in the United States are in shock because of the outburst of antisemitism worldwide.
A recent addition to the ever-burgeoning genre of books instructing Israel on the most suitable method of ceasing to exist (one-state solution, no-state solution, final solution) is adorned by the following from Noam Chomsky:
Over the last couple of weeks there has been a massacre of ethnic Uzbeks on border between Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
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"On a recent trip to Europe, a family of three generations (a Holocaust survivor, his daughter and his grandchildren) dance to Gloria Gaynor's pop song - 'I Will Survive' at concentration camps and memorials throughout Europe.
About 30 children and youths, largely of Lebanese, Palestinian and Iranian descent, threw stones at the dancers on Sunday, shouting "Jews out!" daily Berliner Morgenpost reported. The youths were aged from 10 to 15, the paper reported.
The other day it came out that Reuters had published doctored photographs related to the recent Gaza Flotilla incident. The images were "cropped" in order to make the good guys look bad and the bad guys look better. A picture, so it is said, is worth a thousand words.
The idea of punishing a columnist for her views, however vicious, might befit some tinpot dictatorship, but it has no place in this country, where extremists do a more than adequate job of exposing themselves, thank you. Which is what Miss Thomas has just done.
"Never again." It's what the world said after the Holocaust.
Holocaust has not initiated any private discussions.