David Frum
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That kind of threat was something they remembered from across the ocean and from a different time, not here and not now.
But of course, it is here and it is now and striking all over the continent, all over the world.
When these kinds of incidents happen, a certain kind of speaker, a certain kind of politician, a certain kind of online influencer, a certain kind of journalist will say, it is very important not to conflate
the Jews of here, wherever here is, Ontario, Canada, the United States, New York, wherever it is, with the Jews over there.
We should not be blaming the Jews of Belleville for the crimes of the state of Israel.
Now, this kind of remark is intended to be a defense of the Jewish community that is under attack, but it is in its own way a form of incitement.
Because when you say we must not conflate the Jews here with the Jews there, we must not blame our Jews for those Jews,
What you're doing is suggesting that there are some Jews who deserve the kind of violence just that happened.
And what you're also doing is offering safety to certain Jews on condition that they disavow others.
We see a lot of this in remarks by some people who are disaffiliated Jews who will say, we can be safer if only we separate ourselves from the Jews in Israel who are under attack.
We can buy some safety for ourselves.
I hear that.
And I think that that is the counsel of cowardice.
To buy safety for yourself by abandoning others, by separating yourself from others who equally deserve safety, that seems to me a reprehensible thing.
But as a strictly factual matter, it's just wrong that the no conflation argument, don't attack the Jews here for what the Jews over there did, begins with the foundation upon a lie.
And the lie is the lie that we're hearing again and again, that Israel committed genocide, that is Nazi-like atrocities in its war of self-defense that began when it was attacked so atrociously on October 7th, 2023.
I once made it a project to dig back through the archives to find who is the first person who compared the state of Israel to the Nazis and when did it happen.
And as best I can tell, the first prominent person to do it was the British historian Arnold Toynbee, who makes the point in a book published in 1954, the eighth volume of his study of history.
Within six years of the independence of the state of Israel, Arnold Toynbee is publishing a comparison of the state of Israel to the Nazis.
Now, what makes the comparison extra piquant is that Arnold Toynbee was pretty Nazi-adjacent himself.
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