{"id":1973,"date":"2018-02-21T17:28:31","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T04:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=1973"},"modified":"2020-01-03T11:38:42","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T22:38:42","slug":"book-review-the-anti-israel-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2018\/02\/book-review-the-anti-israel-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Anti-Israel Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn the Middle Ages, Jews were hated because of their religion. In the nineteenth and early twentieth century they were hated because of their race. Today they are hated because of their nation state, the state of Israel. It takes different forms but it remains the same thing: the view that Jews have no right to exist as free and equal human beings.\u201dRabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks<\/a><\/cite><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While the \u201cvirus<\/a>\u201d of antisemitism has mutated, the methods of attacking Jews have hardly changed over centuries. Demonisation, delegitimisation (dehumanisation) and applying double standards to Jews has led to physical attacks by individuals which states start to turn a blind eye to before joining the aggression.<\/p>\n

In the Middle Ages, blood libels led to mob attacks and then expulsions and state-sanctioned pogroms. The early twentieth century saw Jews cast as subhuman, which emboldened widespread violence that transformed into systematic government-led genocide. And most recently Israel is demonised, delegitimised, and held to unique standards, which has led to Jewish facilities attacked in some diaspora countries as well as terror attacks within the Jewish state and attempts by neighbouring militaries to destroy the nation.<\/p>\n

Israel has had to develop an advanced military and enviable security infrastructure as a result of having to defend her citizens. The need for security was evident even before the war of independence in 1947-8, and has continued during three other major military invasion attempts, as well as during multiple large-scale terror attacks and hundreds of \u201clone wolf\u201d incidents. While terrorist organisations and Arab states still threaten war in rhetoric and in action (both through actual military advances<\/a> and by rewarding or supporting terrorists<\/a>), there is another war being waged in the media and in political circles.<\/p>\n

The Anti-Israel Agenda<\/i><\/a> exposes the front lines of this war of words with experts sharing their unique perspectives:<\/p>\n