BRITISH JOURNALISTS WALLOW IN ANTI-ISRAEL MYTHS, IGNORE PALESTINIAN JOURNALISTS' PLEAS FOR HELP AGAINST FATAH AND HAMAS

There's a bile-inducing pamphlet being passed around the left, the point of which is that an anti-Israel boycott just around the corner. It's what you'd expect, but if you want to track them down this Google News search will produce four or five different versions. The main point is that the pro-boycott vote by British journalists - where they blamed Israel for interfering with the work of reporters in the Gaza Strip and West Bank - was a dramatic turning point. We're not sure about the conclusions of the article. But it's undeniable that the votes of British journalists had a drip-drip-drip effect on global sentiment - the kind of "change what people can reasonably say out loud" tactic that Ahmadinejad has exploited so successfully to deny the Holocaust. It's also undeniable that there's something a little strange about the obsession that British journalists have with the Jewish State. For instance, if they were genuinely concerned about reporters - well, one would think that this might matter a little bit more:

Palestinian journalists on Sunday announced a series of protests to demand that Hamas and Fatah stop targeting them. The announcement... came after a crackdown on newsmen in both the Fatah-controlled West Bank and the Hamas-run Gaza Strip. Embattled Palestinian reporters said such attacks had become the norm in the Palestinian territories. "Both Hamas and Fatah are targeting journalists," said a Ramallah-based journalist. "We are caught in the cross fire between Hamas and Fatah." Another member of the press from Jenin said he had been receiving death threats on an almost daily basis in recent months. "One day it's from Fatah, and another day the threats come from Hamas," he told The Jerusalem Post. "For the past month, I haven't been able to write anything under my name out of fear for my life."

The reason British journalists are targeting Israel is because Israel is the one interfering with reporters in Gaza and the West Bank. Obviously.

[Cross-posted to Mere Rhetoric]