Israelophobia review: Is Israel treated differently? Yes and that should shame us
If your starting position is that Israel has no right to exist – to “push it into the sea” as the Iranian regime charmingly puts it – this probably isn’t the book for you. Israelophobia by Jake Wallis Simons is not a simple defence of Israel, nor an attempt to deny its responsibilities in the tragedy of Israeli-Palestinian relations, but an examination of the way Israel has been weaponised in the culture war by an evolving strain of antisemitism. As editor of The Jewish Chronicle, Wallis Simons’ perspective is not unexpected and his th...