PALABRAS SABIAS y premonitorias de Eric Hoffer, un no judío, que escribió lo siguiente en 1968:

The Jews are a peculiar people: things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it, Poland and Czechoslovakia did it, Turkey threw out a million Greeks, and Algeria a million Frenchman. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese-and no one says a word about refugees.

But in the case of Israel the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab.

Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.

Leed el resto, sobre todo porque da de lleno contra la memez que más se está oyendo estos días: que criticar a Israel no equivale a ser antisemita. En teoría no, claro. Pero sí lo es criticar a Israel por cosas que se le perdona a todo el mundo menos a Israel. Aplicar un doble rasero es una forma de antisemitismo más vieja que la sopa de ajo.