Mick Hartley

Another letter from the great and the good on the urgent requirement to abolish the state of Israel. Declaration on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid in Historic Palestine.

The Elder of Ziyon comments:

Over 800 academics and artists have signed yet another letter demanding that Israel be destroyed and replaced with yet another Arab-majority state.

Somehow, this Arab state will be "a democratic constitutional arrangement that grants and implements on all the inhabitants of this land equal rights and duties, regardless of their racial, ethnic, and religious identities, or gender preferences."

Like all the other Arab states!

I like that "gender preferences". Of course regardless of gender preferences. It's going to be a progressive paradise, no less.

We know that they want this to be another Arab state because the letter says the state will "give priority to the long deferred right of return of Palestinian refugees expelled from their towns and villages during the creation of the State of Israel."

The letter uses the word "apartheid" 17 times. 

It should not need to be said that people who are obsessed with the destruction of the world's only Jewish state, who are silent about the scores of states that declare themselves to be Christian, Muslim, Arab or Buddhist, prove themselves to be antisemites. But just to make sure, they use the Nazi-era term of "Jewish supremacy."

The organization behind this letter is French – Association des Universitaires pour le Respect du Droit International en Palestine – so it is not surprising that over 200 of the signatories are from France. As of this writing, 151 are from the US and 116 are from the UK.

Among the UK signatories proud to identify themselves as antisemites are musicians Brian Eno and Roger Waters.