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This Is an Anti-Fascist

(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - The name we should remember from last weekend is not the Israelophobic punk who whipped up the smug mob at Glastonbury into a frenzy of violent loathing for the IDF, but rather Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, a young IDF soldier, himself a Brit, who was laying down his life for the Jewish people. He was killed in Gaza on Sunday as he did battle with that army of antisemites, Hamas. Now that's anti-fascism. Natan was 20 years old. He was born in London and moved to Israel 11 years ago. He was a sergeant in a combat engineering battalion and was killed by an explosive device in Gaza. Natan's father paid tribute to him. He was fighting "for his parents, his family, his people," he said. "I feel he has a place in history." This is the Briton we should be talking about, this British Jew just out of his teens, who ventured into enemy territory to fight the Islamists who butchered so many of his people, this real anti-fascist who put his life on the line for the Jewish homeland. One can only hope that in his final few hours he did not see any clips of the privileged, hateful people in the country of his birth dreaming of the death of Jews like him. How betrayed he would have felt.
2025-07-03 00:00:00
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