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Israeli Lives Don't Count: What the Celebrity Crusade for Barghouti Says about Our "Elites"
(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Stephen Pollard - Imagine there was a prisoner serving time in a British prison over five counts of murder relating to his involvement in three separate terrorist attacks in England. In one attack, a monk was killed. In another a petrol station was targeted. And in the third, three people were murdered in a seafood restaurant. These were specific and clear convictions over which the court carefully deliberated. In his sentencing remarks, the judge said the terrorist was "responsible for providing the field units with money and arms." Then imagine that after he had served 23 years of his sentence, a group of cultural icons and celebrities signed an open letter demanding his release. The signatories included writers, actors, and musicians. I doubt any of them would ever work again if, for example, they had signed a letter demanding the release of the Manchester Arena bombers, Salman and Hashem Abedi. The very idea is mad. The only difference is that Marwan Barghouti, the terrorist in question, was convicted of those exact murders detailed above in an Israeli court. And the victims were all Israelis. All the signatories are, of course, entitled to their opinion. And we are equally entitled to point out the grotesque warped morality of their demand that because Barghouti's victims were Israeli, he should be treated as some sort of saint rather than as a cold-bloodied murderer.