Tuesday, May 24, 2005
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David Pryce-Jones: What's In A Boycott? The campaign to delegitimize Israel has smelly historical roots - '...In itself, such a boycott is gesture politics of no great significance. Those who voted for it are merely useful idiots in someone else's cause, puffed up with moral indignation that costs them nothing but that fortifies their self-righteousness and vanity. And yet the delegitimization of Israel takes many forms in many forums, and in their way the AUT boycotters are helping to confirm the primacy of the Palestinian cause in today's political sphere. Under cover of that cause, irrationality toward Israel is diffusing into irrationality about Jews generally, sweeping one country after another. Palestinian psychological warfare has already created conditions for a fresh eruption of the psychic illness of the masses.' [via Melanie Phillips] (Link)
