They are running. They are charging ahead. Hatred burns within them.
Two weeks ago, it was Britain’s Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which represents hundreds of thousands of nurses and nursing staff in the country. The men and women in white nursing uniforms decided to join the BDS movement and to sever all ties with Teva as part of a boycott.
British air force base
(Photo: REUTERS/Toby Shepheard)
Have they lost their minds? The answer is yes. Teva makes medicines that save lives.
True, there will be no immediate impact on Britain’s drug supply, but we already know where this is heading. Step by step, they are embracing the Islamist logic: It does not matter how much we hurt ourselves, as long as Jews are harmed, even slightly. After all, that was the logic behind the October 7 massacre.
We had barely finished with the nurses when Britain’s Green Party approved a resolution declaring that “Zionism is racism.” Adding insult to injury, it also expressed opposition to a two-state solution while embracing the “solution” of one state.
What do the Greens have to do with such profound hatred for Israel’s very existence?
The idea of the Jewish people’s right to a national home, which lies at the heart of Zionism, made a major breakthrough in 1917 with the Balfour Declaration.
Why? Because those were the days when empires were breaking apart amid growing recognition of the right to self-determination. That is precisely what Zionism sought, against the backdrop of the struggle against colonialism.
Yet now Britain’s Green Party has decided to join the Islamist, jihadist, Hamas-style imperialism that is fighting not for a Palestinian state but to turn the entire world, including Britain, into part of an Islamist caliphate.
Have they gone mad? Yes. Hatred has driven them out of their minds.
Incidentally, they voted in favor of “a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.” Wonderful.
Where exactly is there a democratic state in the Arab world? Where exactly have two different populations managed to live together peacefully in the Arab world without recurring cycles of civil war? Yemen? Iraq? Sudan? Libya? Are they really that foolish?
And since the Greens have joined the “Zionism is racism” celebration, it is worth recalling that they are supposed to concern themselves with the environment. An important issue.
Yet Clare Short, who served as a minister in the British government, said as far back as 2007 that Israel was also to blame for global warming. Israel? What does that have to do with anything?
The madness did not begin in the past month. So yes, the seeds of hatred were planted in British discourse many years ago. The two disgraceful decisions of recent days are the rotten fruit.
Britain is a member of NATO and one of the alliance’s most powerful countries, ranking third after the United States and France. Over the past several decades, it has been regarded as America’s most important ally.
But Britain is changing its face. The Royal College of Nursing and the Green Party are only symptoms.
This is not just hatred of Israel. It is hatred of the West. It is self-hatred. It is Qatari meddling, backed by alarming amounts of funding.
It turns out that under these circumstances, after British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband declared in an impassioned speech just last week that the protesters against Israel "were right," even the United States feels that it is difficult to rely on the British.
What begins with the Jews never ends with the Jews.
When racism rears its head, whether on the radical right or the radical left, it will not be satisfied with kicking Zionism. It is a kick at Western values. It is a kick at humanity.
According to a Pew Research Center survey from July, China enjoys greater favorability in Britain, at 46%, than the United States, at 41%. And China, it is worth remembering, is Iran’s main lifeline. Perhaps the next survey will find greater sympathy for murderous Iran, and maybe even for the Houthis in Yemen, than for the United States.
And it turns out that under these circumstances, after British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband declared in an impassioned speech just last week that the protesters against Israel "were right," even the United States feels that it is difficult to rely on the British.
It can be assumed that the urgent U.S. decision to evacuate bombers from Fairford air base was made against the backdrop of intelligence information and the fact that just two weeks ago, five masked individuals were apprehended near the base after being suspected of planning an attack.
Perhaps the United States understands that in a country where hatred is legitimized not only by a nurses’ organization, not only by an opposition party but by the foreign secretary himself, it is difficult to rely on the security services.
After all, it would hardly be surprising if more and more figures at the top of Britain’s current establishment, who are already more on Hamas’ side than Israel’s, are also more on Iran’s side than America’s.
Hatred is a contagious disease. It harms not only those who are hated but also those who hate.
Hamas murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis and brought upon itself devastation that makes the Nakba look like child’s play by comparison.
Nazi Germany murdered 6 million Jews and suffered the deaths of some 8 million people, soldiers and civilians, in addition to immense destruction and more than 12 million people who became refugees.
Too many figures in a country that once knew how to stand up to the Nazis of the past, who called for the extermination of Jews, are kowtowing to the Nazis of today, who likewise call for the extermination of Jews.
They are not the majority. But they are raising their heads, and not only in Britain.
The awakening will come. For our sake and for theirs, we must hope it comes before the destruction does.