BRITISH MSM'S ANTI-SEMITISM ON DISPLAY

UK GUARDIAN:

One of Iran's most illustrious politicians, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, dramatically increased his influence yesterday by winning control of a powerful clerical body in a development that could change the course of the country's leadership.

Mr Rafsanjani, a conservative pragmatist and former president, was elected head of the experts' assembly after overcoming a determined rightwing effort to block him. He received 41 votes, while his opponent, hardliner Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who ran as the "stop Rafsanjani" candidate in an election triggered by the death in July of the assembly's previous chairman, Ayatollah Ali Akbar Meshkini, received 34.

ER UM... RAFSANJANI IS HARDLY PRAGMATIC OR ILLUSTRIOUS.

HE IS VICIOUS AND MURDEROUS - YES MURDEROUS:
HE IS WANTED BY ARGENTINA FOR MASS MURDER OF JEWS.

OBVIOUSLY, THIS INDICTMENT IS OF NO CONCERN TO BRILLIANT AND INFORMED UK JOURNALISTS.

JPOST:

A British current affairs magazine has compared the Marva and Gadna IDF youth summer programs to Islamic Jihad "summer camps," and questioned what the difference would be if the participants were British Muslims.

In the latest edition of New Statesman, journalist Matthew Holehouse begins his article, entitled "The British children who train to fight in Israel," by stating that Israel denounced the Islamic Jihad summer camps in Gaza, which trained Palestinian adolescents to become suicide bombers, after hearing about them in 2001.

However, he continues, "what went unreported was that at a purpose-built barracks in the Negev desert, every summer, hundreds of Jewish teenagers from Europe, Mexico and America pay to spend nine weeks saluting, marching, firing guns and otherwise pretending to be soldiers." Holehouse then asks what would happen if these were young British Muslims who had trained in Yemen or Pakistan.

"There's not much to be won in games of moral equivalence and assertions as to which side's indiscriminate attacks on civilians are the more reprehensible," he says. "But ask yourself this question: If these were British Muslim 19-year-olds firing machine guns and running assault courses in Pakistan or Yemen, would we not have them all arrested at the airport?"

Equating Hamas and Hizballah camps with those run by the IDF is equating the IDF with Hamas and Hizballah. This is insane. And anti-Semitic.

False moral equivalences like this are the hallmark of postmodern leftism - the home of contemporary anti-Semitism. The postmodern left has a stranglehold on much of the UK's MSM. Just like here.