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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/10/labour-betrayal-british-jews-historic-disgrace/
Why Is Britain Turning Its Back on Israel, a Democracy on the Front Line Against Islamism?
(Telegraph-UK) Allister Heath - When did we give up on truth, democracy and Western values? When did we choose to reward terrorists, butchers, kidnappers and barbarians? Why is Britain turning its back not just on Israel, a democracy on the front line against Islamism, but also, increasingly, against its Jewish citizens? The double standards are sickening. There was anger that Isaac Herzog, Israel's president, is in Britain meeting Prime Minister Keir Starmer; yet the PM's meeting with the Palestinian Authority dictator Mahmoud Abbas, holder of an antisemitic PhD from a Soviet university and proponent of pay-per-slay support for the families of Palestinian terrorists, was uncontroversial. How can this be right? And why is Starmer promising to unconditionally recognize a virtual Palestinian state that would still be committed to Israel's obliteration? Britain is now among the global centers of Israelophobia. The Jewish state is always on trial, guilty until proven innocent, its motives inherently suspect, its claims reflexively disbelieved. Israel's enemies, the savage Hamas blackmailers who were targeted in Qatar, rebranded themselves as "the negotiation team," even though they were the terror group's most hardline leaders. Israel isn't committing a genocide, as the Foreign Office has quietly admitted, and yet 45% of voters believe, absurdly, that Israel treats the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews. Israel needs to fight anew for its legitimacy every day, unlike every other country. It is never given the benefit of the doubt. Britain, America, France: all have made terrible errors in wartime, all are plagued by their fair share of rogues, and yet few believe that these nations have forfeited the right to exist as a result. The West projects upon Israel all of its own demons, every pathology of its own history. Our secular intelligentsia refuses to accept that Palestinian elites are rejectionists. They don't want a two-state solution: they want control from the river to the sea, with the Jews ethnically cleansed.