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Source: https://www.jns.org/opinion/column/melanie-phillips/alarm-bells-go-off-in-new-york
Is Israel Responsible for Outcome of New York City Primaries?
(JNS) Melanie Phillips - "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough declared on cable news channel MS NOW that the person most responsible for the march of anti-Israel extremism in New York City's Democratic primaries wasn't New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. What was shaping views now, he said, were images that Israel had brutalized children and women in Gaza "with bombing that looks indiscriminate on TV day in and day out for years." Scarborough did not draw the reasonable conclusion that these images had persuaded millions of people to believe libelous falsehoods that had been propagated to delegitimize the State of Israel as a prelude to its destruction. Instead, he suggested that these lies were true. A moment's thought shows how ludicrous this is. Hatred of the Jewish homeland not only long predated Netanyahu's first period as prime minister but predated the establishment of the State of Israel itself. The writer is a columnist for The Times-UK.