Mick Hartley

Douglas Murray – whose book On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel, Hamas and the Future of the West was published in April – talks to Brendan O'Neill at Spiked:

We see young people from Britain to Australia, Canada and America, who really don’t have a dog in the fight, accuse the Israelis of things like colonialism, genocide and white supremacy – all of which are offences that these young people in particular have been told that they themselves are guilty of. As I wrote in my last book, The War on the West, it is unclear what you are to do, as a generation taught that you are guilty of crimes for which you have no responsibility. It is an unsolvable situation. But the Jewish State presents an answer – a scapegoat on to which you can project all the crimes you were told you were guilty of.

See also, On Settler Colonialism – from Adam Kirsch:

But what if there were a country where settler colonialism could be challenged with more than words? Where all the evils attributed to it – from "emptiness" and "not-enoughness" to economic inequality, global warming, and genocide – could be given a human face? Best of all, what if that settler colonial society were small and endangered enough that destroying it seemed like a realistic policy rather than a utopian dream? Such a country would be the perfect focus for all the moral passion and rhetorical violence that fuels the ideology of settler colonialism. It would be a country one could hate virtuously – especially if it were home to a people whom Western civilization has traditionally considered it virtuous to hate.