A BBC Reporter Suggests that French Jews Had It Coming https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/uncategorized/2015/01/a-bbc-reporter-suggests-that-french-jews-had-it-coming/

January 13, 2015 | Nick Cohen
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BBC reporter Tim Wilcox, interviewing a Jewish woman in Paris about the most recent murders of Jews, pointed out that “many critics, though, of Israel’s policy would suggest that the Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well.” Unfortunately, writes Nick Cohen, this sort of attitude is typical of the European press:

People are demanding that the BBC fire Wilcox. I disagree for two reasons. First, you do not respond to an attack on a newspaper by firing journalists. More importantly, Wilcox is not some isolated and aberrant racist; his views are the standard opinions of the European left middle class. I meet them every day in my political neighborhood. . . . Wilcox like so many others does not understand that anti-Semitism is not a rational, if regrettably bloody, critique of Israeli foreign policy, but an insane conspiracy theory that has captured the minds of millions of fanatics, moved whole nations, and led to uncountable deaths.

I wonder how many more bombs it will take to blow these people out of their folly. In my bleaker moments, I suspect they will take it to their graves.

Read more on Spectator: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/01/the-bbc-blaming-the-jews-for-attacks-on-jews/