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The Truth of the Palestinian Cause
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Melanie Phillips - We're living through a tsunami of Jew-hatred. Thousands of people in Britain and the West are parroting falsehoods about Israel that aren't only outright lies and willful distortions, but are also demonstrably ridiculous, such as the claim that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. It's as if Britain and the West have gone through the looking glass into a nightmarish, Orwellian world where the meaning of language has been reversed and lies have become unchallengeable truths. Deranged fear and hatred of Jews and the aim of exterminating them define the Palestinian cause. But instead of regarding Palestinian lies as a collective psychopathology, politicians and media stoke the flames of Jew-hatred by themselves parroting the propaganda about Israel behaving unconscionably. Jew-hatred has not only been normalized. It's been rebranded as social justice because support for Palestinianism, which seeks to write the Jews out of their country, their history, and the world, is what now passes for a moral sense among swathes of the public and the intelligentsia. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.