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Published on 22 November 2015

ISIS threat: Will new coalition against terror keep old double standard on Israel?

The problem is that moral relativism—or, more accurately, immoral relativism—empowers terrorism and inevitably dooms any campaign to defeat global terrorism.

By Rabbi Abraham Cooper, Harold Brackman published in Fox News November 21, 2015
 
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche posited, “You have your way, I have my way. As for the right way, it does not exist.” Such moral relativism underpins the double standard that allows international leaders and powerful media to promote a crusade against ISIS terror while at the same time cast a blind eye to barbaric targeting of Israel and Jews.
 
The problem is that moral relativism—or, more accurately, immoral relativism—empowers terrorism and inevitably dooms any campaign to defeat global terrorism.
 
Meanwhile, the anti-Semitic World headquarters in Tehran is busy forging its latest "blame the Jew" big lie -- that Israel and "Zionist aggression" lurk behind the 11/13 Paris attacks. Iran’s FARS New Agency has “once again confirmed that French Jews were informed that the tragedy would happen. Just as it happened in the September 11 attacks 14 years ago.”
 
And while most of the world mourned innocents murdered on a Friday night in Paris, Gaza erupted in a pro-ISIS celebration, allowed by supposedly anti-ISIS Hamas. They burned the French Tricolour in celebration of the Paris terror attacks as a blow for ending Zionist oppression. In an interview to the Iranian news agency, Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki praised “the heroic acts being carried out by the young Palestinians against the Israeli enemy,” while equating Israelis and Nazis. Each of these murderers immediately enter the Palestinians' online Hall of Fame of Terror.
 
The sickness and evil of anti-Israel bigotry is nourished by Mary Hughes-Thompson, co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement. She tweeted, “I haven’t accused Israel of involvement. Still, Bibi is upset about the European settlement boycott. So who knows.” And then posted a cartoon showing a grotesquely caricatured Jew saying “Merci [Thank you]” to an ISIS fighter, because “Everything is working out as planned. Soon those White goyim will be on their knees.”
 
What is shocking is how important leaders in democracies, wittingly or not, actually undermine the anti-ISIS campaign. In Sweden, where the Jewish community had to cancel all evening activities and shutter its synagogues until further notice, Foreign Minister Margot Allstrom has linked Paris terror to the Israeli-Palestinian dispute in an appalling way. She refers to the Middle East, “where not least the Palestinians see that there is no future. We must either accept a desperate situation or resort to violence.” Her use of “we” suggests moral solidarity, not with Jews under threat in Israel or in her own country, but with Palestinian terrorists...  Read more