The award for 'gratuitious insulting of Israel' this week is awarded to Simon Barnes' father as reported in Simon Barnes' Times column today. At the end of a piece about over aggressive cyclists comes this:
"Cyclists are Israelis," my father pronounced.A quality piece of gratuitous insulting of Israel, alongside a conflation of Jews and Israel. What a lovely chap.
"Persecuted for years, now able to persecute in their turn, doing so at every opportunity and fancying themselves heroes and martyrs for doing so."
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