Not only do I admire the Guardian, I also find it fun to read, which in a way is more of a compliment. But if there is one issue that has made me feel less loyal to my newspaper over the past year, it has been what I, as a non-Jew, perceive to be a quite striking bias against the state of Israel. Which, for all its faults, is the only country in that barren region that you or I, or any feminist, atheist, homosexual or trade unionist, could bear to live under.Wait - it gets better.
I can't help noticing that, over the years, a disproportionate number of attractive, kind, clever people are drawn to Jews; those who express hostility to them, however, from Hitler to Hamza, are often as not repulsive freaks.(Not to brag or anything, but I've noticed this myself, along with the general immaturity, lack of social skills and ability to function in mainstream society of your average "Bush=Hitler" type.)
Think of famous anti-Zionist windbags - Redgrave, Highsmith, Galloway - and what dreary, dysfunctional, po-faced vanity confronts us. When we consider famous Jew-lovers, on the other hand - Marilyn, Ava, Liz, Felicity Kendal, me - what a sumptuous banquet of radiant humanity we look upon! How fitting that it was Richard Ingrams - Victor Meldrew without the animal magnetism - who this summer proclaimed in the Observer that he refuses to read letters from Jews about the Middle East . . . is a miserable, bitter, hypocritical cuckold, whose much younger girlfriend has written at length in the public arena of the boredom, misery and alcoholism to which living with him has led her, and whose trademark has long been a loathing for anyone who appears to get a kick out of life: the young, the prole, independent women. The Jews are in good company.Hmmmm. I think antisemitism as a fashion statement may have hit bottom.
UPDATE: Will wonders never cease? An Italian professor at Oxford says - in the pages of Al-Guardian! - that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. It's an elementary argument that some of us have repeated to the Left since the 1970s, but unfortunately it's still needed, especially in The Guardian. Yup, I do think it's a trend.
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