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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/16/britain-new-capital-anti-israel-hate/
Britain Is the New Capital of Anti-Israel Hate
(Telegraph-UK) Douglas Murray - It amazes most Israelis - as it amazes me - that Britain has seen some of the worst scenes of all the anti-Israel marches across the world. The first protests in London happened before Israel had even begun its military response to Oct. 7. Rallies were held within hours of the massacres. What other country, having suffered a set of atrocities hardly superseded in the whole history of violence, wouldn't get even one day of sympathy? Only the Jewish state. And everybody in Israel knows as much. Pakistan is currently in the process of forcibly deporting two million Afghans. Nobody cares. Bashar al-Assad is in his twelfth year of killing Muslims in Syria and the world's cameras turned away long ago. Israel withdrew from Gaza unilaterally, and very painfully, in 2005 - removing every Jew. They handed over the land and got rockets in return. Everyone around the Gaza border and across wider Israel was used to running from rockets to the shelters. It was Hamas who broke what ceasefire existed on Oct. 7 when its legions gunned down young people at a music festival, went door-to-door in small communities, and burned people alive in their homes. I have been to the sites of many of these massacres. Many of the residents of kibbutzim were peace activists. I have seen with my own eyes the peacenik literature that lies among the blood stains and looted remains of their houses. In my view, Israel can look after itself. Watching the unity of this nation at war assures me of that.