At the Hague, Anti-Semites Fulfilled Their Longstanding Fantasy

Mosaic - Shany Mor - 05 February 2024

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Hauling the Jews in to plead their case before a special tribunal and face the charge that they are the real Nazis has been the fantasy of every anti-Semite since the first gavel hit a sound block in Nuremberg in 1946. It is the dark fantasy behind the insistence over decades on speaking of controversial Israeli actions always in terms of “war crimes.” This, and not a poor grasp of complex legal arguments, is the reason every Israeli military action in the last half-century has been criticized as “collective punishment” or “disproportionate.”