(Washington Examiner) Dan Hannan - When a black man was killed by a police officer in Minneapolis in 2020, it was treated as an attack on black people everywhere. Statues of white men were taken down. Police officers around the world sank to one knee. Corporations, charities, and arts groups endorsed Black Lives Matter. The killings in Israel were no less traumatic - on the contrary, they were both more numerous and more disturbing, the instinct to protect babies being among the most powerful in the human psyche. Nor were they any less racist. Hundreds of civilians were slaughtered purely on the grounds of their ethnicity. But instead of the horrors in Israel leading to a global Jewish Lives Matter movement, they have led to vandalized synagogues and extra security at Jewish schools, and as a trigger for literal attacks on Jews elsewhere. Pro-Palestine demonstrators who came out on the day of the attack did not have the cover of protesting against an Israeli response, for there had not yet been a response. They were cheering the slaughter of families, pure and simple. "Free Palestine!" chant the crowds. And we all now understand exactly what they mean: free from Jews. We see you. The writer is a former Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for southeast England (1999 to 2020).
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