http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jan/11/gaza-britain-judaism-antisemitism

“As a Jew I find deeply dispiriting Francesca’s exclusive preoccupation with her own community’s wellbeing, her instinct to defend Israel and her failure to side with Palestinians facing brutal aggression. There is every reason for decent people in Britain to be singling out Israel at the moment: because it is massacring the innocents, and because it proceeds with impunity, protected by, amongst other governments, Britain’s own. Moreover, contra Francesca, the Israel-Palestine conflict really is at the heart of current tensions between the West and the Arab-Islamic worlds. Antisemitism takes many forms, but in its currently dominant form it is a tragic, misguided and retrograde response to the way Israel has pursued its policies of apartheid, colonialism and ethnic cleansing, cheered on by the US, UK and others. Nothing would be more helpful in countering antisemitism than a forceful public proclamation by people like Francesca that what Israel is doing is not in their name. It is certainly not in mine.”