A terrifying turn to antisemitism, free Palestine from Hamas and other commentary

“Let us be clear and unequivocal: Zionism is not racism,” grumbles Shahrar Ali at Spiked, and it was “profoundly anti-Semitic and racist” for the UK Green Party to declare that it is.Establishing a Jewish homeland, arising from the “unconscionable atrocities endured by the Jewish people,” is fundamentally “an anti-racist” project.

The Green declaration echoes “Hamas’s stated objectives,” as “the logical endpoint of the party’s new policy is the disappearance of Israel as a sovereign state.” “I am deeply saddened and ashamed of what has become of the party that I have served for the best part of two decades” and “terrified of what hard-left authoritarianism, now firmly installed within the Green Party, has unleashed upon us.”Three years ago, Hamas triggered “the most catastrophic chapter in contemporary Palestinian history,” thunders Ahmed Alkhatib at The Free Press, with no explicit condemnation from “ ‘pro-Palestine” activists, advocates, or organizations.” “In initiating October 7, Hamas turned Gaza into the fulcrum for instability, devastation, and conflict in the Middle East”; Israelis “who once believed in peace are now increasingly suspicious of the prospect of coexistence with the Palestinians.” “The majority of Gazans” now “recognize that the terror group has wreaked unimaginable destruction on their lives, even if they hold grievances toward Israel.” Yet in the West, “the ‘pro-Palestine’ industrial complex has hidden under misinformed slogans, pushed ugly sentiments, and fueled antisemitism across the world, all while Hamas continues to run rampant over Palestinians’ futures.”“NAZA,” the documentary that purports “to show Israeli disregard for human life” has multiple serious “methodological problems,” with many of its key claims “debunked,” fumes Commentary’s Seth Mandel, yet prestige outlets review it as if that info didn’t exist.The film “provides anonymou...