"Demonization of Israel for Dummies"

That is the title of Anne Bayefsky's Letter To The Editor on The National Review Online, where she responds to the reaction of Craig Mokhiber, deputy director of the New York Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, to her article “Dithering on Durban II".

Bayefsky outlines the step-by-step process (there are 8 altogether) of demonizing Israel--with examples. The first four steps are:

• Step One: Wrap everything U.N. — hate-mongering included — in the flag of human rights...
  
  
• Step Two: Pretend the critic is incapable of following U.N. events or ignorant of the intricacies of U.N. affairs. In this case, Mokhiber begins by claiming my criticism of his remarks couldn’t possibly be accurate as “…she was not even present.”...
  
  
• Step Three: Stand on a large soapbox and scream racism, Palestinian persecution, and foreign occupation in the same breath...
  
  
• Step Four: Accuse those who object to Israel’s treatment at the U.N. of propagating the idea that Israel can do no wrong...

Who knew there were that many...?

Read the whole thing.

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