If it weren’t for double standards, the liberal media  and the academic elite might have no standards at all.

Israelis and Jews are no strangers to double standards.

We understand, because we have listened to students from the best universities, and even the presidents of some of them, explain to us that antisemitism, alone among the scourge that is race hatred, must be evaluated in context.

We understand, because we hear heads of international organizations and NGOs clarify for us that murdering 1,200 innocent civilians (of the Jewish variety) might be justifiable, given a context of colonial oppression, while erroneously (and tragically) killing aid workers (of the non-Jewish variety) suspected of being combatants is yet another war crime, and further proof of a Zionist genocidal agenda.

We have been carefully taught that offenses against Muslims, African-Americans, women, and Asians are widely considered more offensive than mistreatment of Jews, which is often no more than a wholly understandable expression of disapproval of Israel’s policies, and thus not a hate crime at all.

We know that only one type of “refugee,” with respect to whom the Jews are deemed culpable, is classified as such in perpetuity, while Jewish refugees from Arab lands receive no such dispensation, no coddling, and no attention whatsoever.

This isn’t our first dance.

And yet, and yet . . .

Sometimes the disparity just seems so obvious, so overwhelming, so unfair, that you feel compelled to exhibit your outrage, hold it up for public view in the futile expectation that right-thinking people will see and understand, that the world will nod and say, “Now I get it.”

But it never does.  Some pigs are just more equal than other pigs.  And, notwithstanding our well-known dietary restrictions, we have become the less equal pigs.

So, fully cognizant that pointing it out one more time is unlikely to move the needle, let’s just take a look at what happens when two United States presidents aggressively, and perhaps unwisely, pursue agendas against perceived........

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