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Julie Birchill has a romp in Haaretz at the expense of the antisemtic British media:
...[M]ore than one night has seen me screaming at the TV/my husband "You don't understand! None of you English bastards understands!" before running into the bedroom, slamming the door and collapsing in a tearful heap with only Bibi to comfort me.One of the most grotesque examples of the almost brainwashed level of bias can be seen on the official BBC Religions Web site, where that "peace be upon him" eyewash is going on like crazy, while other religions are coolly commented on in a strictly "objective" way.
The conflict has sent this tendency into overdrive, with not just the usual Masochist Hacks For Mohammed such as Robert Fisk (beaten up by Islamists, says they were right to do it) and Yvonne Ridley (kidnapped by Islamists, then became one) getting their chadors in a twist about big swarthy men with tea-towels on their heads treating the West mean and keeping it - in their case at least - keen.
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From the article:
"Over at Channel 4, Jon Snow interviewed an Israeli diplomat with all the finesse and objectivity of a neo-Nazi spraying a six-foot swastika on a wall. Of the rockets which murdered Israeli civilians in the town of Sderot, he said "Rockets, pretty pathetic things - nobody gets injured." This was gleefully picked up and proclaimed by The Guardian, the newspaper I left some years ago in protest at what I saw as its vile anti-Semitism."
"In fact the tone in papers as diverse as the "liberal" Guardian to the right-wing Daily Mail has been repulsively similar; look, look, the Israelis are as bad as the terrorists! Worse, in fact, because they've got America behind them! Even the normally sensible Matthew Parris in the normally sensible Times wrote: "The past 40 years have been a catastrophe, gradual and incremental, for world Jewry. Seldom in history have the name and reputation of a human grouping lost so vast a store of support and sympathy so fast."
The catastrophe he refers to is the State of Israel itself; you'd really think, reading this, that the years leading up to the creation of the Jewish state were, in fact, a right royal romp in the park. Instead of the Holocaust."
As the man said, it really is 1938 all over again, and, for the most part, the elites of Britain are proving beyond question that within the context of anti-Semitism they really are no better than those chaps at SS headquarters.
"As the man said, it really is 1938 all over again, and, for the most part, the elites of Britain are proving beyond question that within the context of anti-Semitism they really are no better than those chaps at SS headquarters."
I'm disappointed at the slight lack of characteristic hyperbole here, Joshua. "[F]or the most part"? And just the "elites"?
What about the great heaving mass of brown-shirted British citizens with their "deep-rooted anti-Semitism"? The "sons and daughters of the kind of people who beat up Holocaust survivors" on account of sucking in anti-semitism "with their mother's tainted milk"? It is after all "high time that Britain took down her Union Flag" and replaced it with a swastika. And I need hardly remind you that "the default position of the Brit (intellectuals and great unwashed)" is to "blame the Americans or the Jews - both if at all possible."
Joshua,
You wrote "Even the normally sensible Matthew Parris ", but I think you will find that he is one person who's opinions are always WRONG!
"What about the great heaving mass of brown-shirted British citizens with their "deep-rooted anti-Semitism"? The "sons and daughters of the kind of people who beat up Holocaust survivors" on account of sucking in anti-semitism "with their mother's tainted milk"?"
Given those points are more than adequately made day in and day out by your goodself, I didn't think I'd rub your delicate little British noses in it more than is absolutely necessary.
Alternative version: Don't kick a Stormtrooper when he's down and out.
"Joshua, You wrote "Even the normally sensible Matthew Parris ", but I think you will find that he is one person who's opinions are always WRONG"
That was Burchill (hence "From the article" and the quotation marks).
I think Parris is a disgusting little creep.
"Given those points are more than adequately made day in and day out by your goodself, I didn't think I'd rub your delicate little British noses in it more than is absolutely necessary."
Can I just ask -- all of your postings on this site are part of some grand-scale joke, right? They are, I'm now thinking, a parody of a person so fanatically devoted to Israel that they have convinced themselves not only that British Jews face a Hitlerian threat, but that a country which fought a devastating war with the Nazis was somehow complicit at every level with their genocidal activities. In other words, your every utterance is directed at satirising the flaming hypocrisy and total divorce from logic and reality (and literacy) that so often accompanies zealotry.
If so, good work for keeping it up for so long, and I apologise for taking you seriously. I particularly like your character's bizarre fixation with the British legal system.
I believe Joshua is what is known as an Internet troll.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_troll