Posted on 08/18/2026 6:34:51 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The West’s selective hatred of Israel says less about Israel than it does about the values—and prejudices—of those who condemn it.
Hamas or Israeli Values?
Israel dominates the daily news in this 2026 midterm election year—almost always in a boring, fatiguing, negative light. Tens of thousands of innocents may be slaughtered, ethnically cleansed, butchered, and tortured by the world’s dictators, yet an overwhelming and obsessive abhorrence is reserved for tiny, democratic Israel.
Such perverse asymmetry is strange, since, at least privately, most Americans would concede that of the 18 Middle Eastern nations, only Israel is a genuine consensual democracy.
As far as tolerance goes, in the entire region, only in Israel is it legal to criticize political or religious figures. Only there can one choose to adopt an openly gay or trans lifestyle. Only there can an apostate renounce one’s religion or urge others to do the same. And only there can Christians establish a new church almost anywhere they choose.
Some of Israel’s fiercest feminist critics who wear miniskirts and halter tops, some of its most severe gay opponents, and some of its more virulent trans adversaries would in all likelihood be summarily arrested in most Middle Eastern countries if they dared to speak, act, or wear clothes as they do in the West—except, of course, in democratic and free Israel.
In terms of protest, scream publicly in Tel Aviv, “I no longer believe in the Jewish faith, and I hate the current government of Israel”—and there is little chance of being arrested.
Chant the same publicly in any Muslim country in the Middle East—“I no longer believe in Islam, and I hate our current government”—and the loud critic would be either jailed or beaten by a street mob or worse.
The New, Old Hatred
On the Left—whether that is defined
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The Israeli Nation State Law was passed in July 2018, not July 2028.
They don’t want you to know that Lebanon is 30% Christian and Israel is killing them along with muslims. But it’s ok to zionist Christians because they worship a false idol.
Being against Foriegn aid is not Antisemitic. Singling out Israel only for ending Foriegn aid is closer.
It’s well worth reading the entire article.
I agree. It was a great article.
VDH brings up a lot of things that don’t matter in the US Israel de facto alliance.
The only thing that matters is how our legislative & executive branches have been behaving since the Suez Crisis when Eisenhower was President. Apparently all that anti Israel money never reached the Senate, House , or the White House.
Israel is getting a black eye internationally because of how their military has prosecuted their post October 7, 2023 war campaigns.
“Oy Vey.”
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