Keir Starmers pathetic Palestine fantasy, the politics of hate and other commentary

“If you want a state, kill some Jews,” grumbles Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s “recognition of a State of Palestine while Hamas continues to hold half-starved Jews in its dank tunnels.” “The Foreign Office has already updated its maps of Israel and the Palestinian Territories to reflect the PM’s decree that a State of Palestine should exist,” but: “Do these people think it’s still the 1920s and puffed-up ministers in London’s opulent offices of state have the ‘right’ to redraw the map of the Middle East as they see fit?” Starmer says Palestinian statehood “is about ‘keeping alive’ the hope of peace.” Yet he “has taken action that directly boosts the moral fortunes” of “Jew-killers” as he and his allies “fantasize that the violent haters of the West can be pacified with pieces of political fruit.”Knowing how to “disagree respectfully” is important, agrees John Ellis at The Wall Street Journal, but that doesn’t address what “political hatred on college campuses is about, or what it is doing to us.” If it were just about “political differences,” then being “more tolerant” would be fine.But a dichotomy between “a group of people who are wronged and another who are the wrongdoers” dominates college campuses.

“In this kind of politics, hatred isn’t a matter of style” but the essence of ideological positioning.“If you ask a campus radical to give up hating, you would be asking him to give up his political framework.” It is unclear how long America can “tolerate a system of higher education that is poisoning” the nation.“Don’t do it, President Trump,” pleads Racket News’ Matt Taibbi: don’t let FCC Chair Brendan Carr “turn the federal government into broadcast media police,” as it would end “the spectacle of people like Jimmy Kimmel suffering” — “the greatest Schadenfreude robbery in history.” If Carr follows through on his threats t...