Graeme

Spot on from Allison Pearson - extracts👇 "If terrorists invaded the UK, hunted down hundreds of young people at Glastonbury, gangraped our girls, jeering and spitting on their half-naked bodies and displaying them as spoils of war, abducted grandmothers and terrified children, burned people alive, shot the family dog and turned their living-room into a pop-up abattoir, is there anyone who would seriously suggest that Britons should not rise up in sorrow and rage to take out the murdering bastards who did that to their country?" "...I am ashamed of my country’s response. While France was swiftly deporting at least two non-nationals for anti-Semitic acts, it was revealed that the Football Association will not light the Wembley arch in the colours of the Israeli flag because of “fears of a backlash from some communities” and because certain senior officials are wary of “the perception they might be taking sides in the conflict”. Wembley was illuminated in the colours of France, Turkey and Ukraine after attacks, and even rainbow colours to protest LGBTQ issues in Qatar. But Jews don’t matter apparently. England players lose no opportunity to take the knee in a performative display to “kick out racism”, but given the opportunity to oppose genocide they fret about causing bad feeling in racist communities. Cowardly, shameful and pathetic." "Israelis don’t have the luxury of cowardice. Courage is the air that they breathe because, unlike the Europeans engaging in minor skirmishes about gender identity and “hate speech”, they have a war to fight against “hate action”. It really is a matter of life and death. That bestows a blazing clarity. As one government minister in Jerusalem snapped at some bleeding-heart reporter from Channel 4 News, “We don’t need moral lessons from you.” The BBC’s Hamas terror cowardice shames Britain telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10…