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December 5, 2014       Share:    

Source: http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/jew-nations-global-demonization-israel

The Jew of Nations: The Global Demonization of Israel

(World Affairs) James Kirchick - North Korea functions as a vast gulag, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad deploys chemical weapons on children, and the Castro brothers have ruled despotically over their Cuban island fiefdom for five decades running, but none of these dictatorial regimes invite anywhere near the scrutiny, never mind spittle-flecked loathing, engendered by the Jewish democratic state. An Israeli soldier fires a rubber bullet in the West Bank and it will generate venomous crowds in cities around the globe; Iranian paramilitary basij forces murder peaceful demonstrators in broad daylight and the world emits barely a peep of protest. Why the Jewish state generates such disproportionate anger is the subject of Joshua Muravchik's thorough and careful study, Making David into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel. The writer is a fellow with the Foreign Policy Initiative.

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