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Source: https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/03/06/the-iran-war-has-exposed-the-anti-imperialism-of-fools/
Is Tiny Israel Pulling Mighty America's Strings?
(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - One doesn't know whether to laugh or cry at all those online saying, "I ain't dying for Israel." Guys, calm down. No one's asking you to fight for anything. Israel isn't in need of you. Yet this tells us something important about what passes for "anti-imperialism" these days, which is that it is obsessed, to a feverish degree, with the Jewish state. They're convinced that the tiny Jewish nation, the size of Wales, is the cause of every war and the source of every ill. And now it even has its beady eyes on their precious lives. Behold the anti-imperialism of fools. The war in Iran has unleashed yet another round of frothing Israelophobia. It feels even more unhinged than the wild hate for the Jewish state that flooded our streets and institutions during the Gaza War. This is a dangerous moment, calling for calm heads and cool analysis. But instead we see the old, wheezing sickness of Jew-baiting in the mask of anti-imperialism. This hatred on the home front requires our urgent attention.