At It Again

  I've just sent another missive to the Jewish Chronicle, this time responding to this column:

Dear Sir,

Daniel Finkelstein is quite right: Richard Dawkins should be ashamed of himself.

Professor Dawkins has approvingly quoted John Hartung’s claims that Jews see the interpersonal mitzvot, from the commandments to love one’s neighbour and the stranger to the prohibitions on theft and murder, as governing relations with other Jews only, not relations with non-Jews.

Needless to say, these claims are based on selective quotation and outright falsification, but from here it is a small step to the idea that Jews actively seek to harm non-Jews, whether in the form of a ritual blood libel or in its modern equivalent: the claim that Jews are willing and able to spill British, American and Arab blood in a bid for world domination.

In this context, Professor Dawkin’s claim that “the Jewish lobby… more or less monopolise[s] American foreign policy” seems much more sinister than a mere slip of the tongue or an exaggerated debating point.

Yours etc.