Israel Derangement Syndrome
When a state is singled out, demonised, and judged by standards applied to no one else, we have entered the realm of pathology. “Israel Derangement Syndrome” is a real, spreading sickness, and it is fully metastasised across the West.
Some truly telling examples. Ireland and others threaten to boycott Eurovision if Israel performs. Spain’s prime minister casually comments that his country should have nuclear weapons to launch at Israel. The Netherlands descends into parliamentary chaos over Gaza. Flouncing Hollywood stars performatively announce that their virtue will not allow them to work with Israeli companies. At first glance, these stories seem trivial, almost absurd, laughable—Eurovision tantrums, political posturing, virtue-signalling, and the Western obsession with grandstanding over the Middle East.
However, none of this is random. Each reflects deep domestic histories of terrorism, antisemitism, and postcolonial guilt that are now exploited by Hamas propaganda and rechannelled against the Jewish state.
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