In her
op-ed published at the
i newspaper (“Our fear of criticising Israel makes us complicit in a devastating year of Palestinian suffering”, Dec. 20), columnist
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown begins with the conceit that it’s brave – and, evidently, rare – to vilify Israel in the British media.
I am on edge as I write this. Like other journalists, I know the invective that will come my way. There will be attempts to smear me and some invitations will be cancelled. It happens every time I write on Israel’s systemic oppression of Palestinian people.
Alibhai-Brown has been a
British media columnist, pundit and consultant for decades, and has a long
history of smearing Israel and, implicitly, British Jews:
Here are a few examples:
In a 2006
Independent op-ed, she
claimed that Israel’s war against Hezbollah was motivated primarily by (Nazi-style) racism against Arabs, and further decried “hardened Zionists” who are so blinded by this hatred that they’re “unmoved by photos of dead infants in Beirut”.
In a 2012
Independent op-ed, she
defended Baroness
Jenny Tonge after she told a student group
that “Israel won’t be here forever”, and claimed Tonge was unfairly “savaged by Zionists”.
At the
Independent in 2014, she
attacked “hardline Zionists”, accusing them of engaging in “paranoia, indiscriminate loyalty and odium towards any person or group opposed to Israel’s violent oppression of Palestinians”. She also seemed to compare jihadist attacks with the actions of the IDF, and accused Israel of engaging in something akin to genocide.
In a 2015 op-ed in the
Independent op-ed titled “Fling mud if you must, but don’t call Jeremy Corbyn an anti-Semite”, the columnist
defended both Corbyn and antisemitic cartoonist
Carlos Latuff, and wrote the that “The right, Blairites and hard Zionists have formed the most unholy of alliances to slay the reputation of the next likely leader of the Labour Party.”
In 2016, at the
i newspaper, she wrote about “rampant censorship” in Britain, decrying “hardline Zionists” as an example of “minority communities” that “can be authoritarian and frighteningly controlling”.
Here are a few tweets by the journalist to provide more context:
In 2014, she tweeted the following, holding Jews responsible for the actions of Israel during their war with Hamas, the antisemitic extremist group proscribed by the British government.
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In her op-ed published at the i newspaper ("Our fear of criticising Israel makes us complicit in a devastating year of Palestinian suffering", Dec. 20), colum
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