When it comes to ignorance and bigotry, The Guardian has a head start on the rest of us

And The Guardian doesn’t like Jews. Julie Burchill, its most famous columnist, quits, The Guardian, Nov­ember 29, 2003:

But if there is one issue that has made me feel less loyal to my newspaper over the past year, it has been what I, as a non-Jew, perceive to be a quite striking bias against the state of Israel. Which, for all its faults, is the only country in that barren region that you or I, or any feminist, atheist, homosexual or trade unionist, could bear to live under … I don’t swallow the modern liberal line that anti-Zionism is entirely different from anti-Semitism.

Neither is the BBC all that enamoured of Jews, especially if they live in Israel. On Friday a girl was murdered by a homemade bomb. It’s a common story, simply told: Chabad.org, August 24:

Friday’s killing of Rina Shnerb, in an attack that also wounded her father and brother, was apparently the work of a remotely activated explosive, with the assailants viewing the scene from afar.

But if there is one issue that has made me feel less loyal to my newspaper over the past year, it has been what I, as a non-Jew, perceive to be a quite striking bias against the state of Israel. Which, for all its faults, is the only country in that barren region that you or I, or any feminist, atheist, homosexual or trade unionist, could bear to live under … I don’t swallow the modern liberal line that anti-Zionism is entirely different from anti-Semitism.

Neither is the BBC all that enamoured of Jews, especially if they live in Israel. On Friday a girl was murdered by a homemade bomb. It’s a common story, simply told: Chabad.org, August 24:

Friday’s killing of Rina Shnerb, in an attack that also wounded her father and brother, was apparently the work of a remotely activated explosive, with the assailants viewing the scene from afar.

The BBC news, August 23:

A 17-year-old Israeli girl has been killed in a bomb attack near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military says.

Oh, I get it now. She was defying international law. It must have been her fault. London’s former lord mayor, Boris Johnson, could see it all clearly. He’s not keen on the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, as he explained at a 2015 trade fair:

The supporters of this so-called boycott are really just a bunch of corduroy-jacketed (lefty) academics … not that there is anything wrong with wearing a corduroy jacket, I hasten to say.

Read the commentary in The Australian.

[The Guardian’s cartoon here depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a puppet-master controlling little dummies of UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and Former British PM Tony Blair triggered furious debate alleging that it uses historic anti-Semitic imagery.]