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....but IMHO you need to look at the ties between Palestinian leadership and the nazi movement before WWII.

David Frum: Israel — denounced for what it is

Posted: September 12, 2009, 8:30 AM by NP Editor

The Toronto International Film Festival will this year feature a film from Malaysia. Nobody will picket or denounce this movie on the grounds that a Malaysian judge last month sentenced a woman to a public caning for drinking beer in a hotel bar.Nor can we expect protests against films from Iran, even though the Iranian regime raped and murdered an arrested Canadian photographer — and continues to use rape to terrorize imprisoned protesters.

There is one country that is always a target of protest, and it is the target at this year’s film festival: the state of Israel. To give the protesters their due, they know what they’re doing. Protests aimed Malaysian or Iranian films would achieve nothing. These regimes are hardly going to alter their behaviour because some Westerners harass their independent filmmakers.

Anti-Israel protests, however, are not aimed at altering Israel’s behaviour. Singling out Israel is a goal in itself. Throughout the ages, anti-Jewish persecution has proceeded through familiar stages. The first stage is to denounce and defame Jews as uniquely villainous creatures — as murderers of Christ, as stiff-necked enemies of Muhammad, as bloodsucking money-lenders, as racial enemies.

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