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Ex-Green: A Terrifying Turn to Antisemitism

“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.”

Arab view: Free Palestine — From Hamas

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........

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