Simon Sebag Montefiore

So everything that happens in the Holy Land is not just about anti-Semitism, and that's why I'm constantly calling on him about everything about it. It's to overlook a massively important thing, which is because of the nature of Christianity, the development of Christianity since Constantine the Great, and because of the Crusades, the Holy Land is in our consciousness.

So everything that happens in the Holy Land is not just about anti-Semitism, and that's why I'm constantly calling on him about everything about it. It's to overlook a massively important thing, which is because of the nature of Christianity, the development of Christianity since Constantine the Great, and because of the Crusades, the Holy Land is in our consciousness.

So everything that happens in the Holy Land is not just about anti-Semitism, and that's why I'm constantly calling on him about everything about it. It's to overlook a massively important thing, which is because of the nature of Christianity, the development of Christianity since Constantine the Great, and because of the Crusades, the Holy Land is in our consciousness.

And when I say our, I don't mean... Jewish people. I mean, it's in the Judeo-Christian consciousness. It's in Christian. There was a time in the Middle Ages when every village in England had a Jerusalem chamber with a picture of Jerusalem. You know, 100,000 people in 1095 to 1099 crossed Europe in a time of a tiny population of Europe to go and retake Jerusalem.

And when I say our, I don't mean... Jewish people. I mean, it's in the Judeo-Christian consciousness. It's in Christian. There was a time in the Middle Ages when every village in England had a Jerusalem chamber with a picture of Jerusalem. You know, 100,000 people in 1095 to 1099 crossed Europe in a time of a tiny population of Europe to go and retake Jerusalem.

And when I say our, I don't mean... Jewish people. I mean, it's in the Judeo-Christian consciousness. It's in Christian. There was a time in the Middle Ages when every village in England had a Jerusalem chamber with a picture of Jerusalem. You know, 100,000 people in 1095 to 1099 crossed Europe in a time of a tiny population of Europe to go and retake Jerusalem.

Jerusalem and the Holy City and the Holy Land are deeply etched in our consciousness in the West. And that is why there are activists camped outside bagel shops in New York and American universities and British universities. Those people who would be very, very, they would be very shocked if I told them that actually they are playing out unconsciously the mindset of an imperialist crusader.

Jerusalem and the Holy City and the Holy Land are deeply etched in our consciousness in the West. And that is why there are activists camped outside bagel shops in New York and American universities and British universities. Those people who would be very, very, they would be very shocked if I told them that actually they are playing out unconsciously the mindset of an imperialist crusader.

Jerusalem and the Holy City and the Holy Land are deeply etched in our consciousness in the West. And that is why there are activists camped outside bagel shops in New York and American universities and British universities. Those people who would be very, very, they would be very shocked if I told them that actually they are playing out unconsciously the mindset of an imperialist crusader.

But that is exactly what they're doing, because that is why they feel that Judea, Canaan, the Holy Land, Israel, Palestine is something that they have a right to pontificate upon.

But that is exactly what they're doing, because that is why they feel that Judea, Canaan, the Holy Land, Israel, Palestine is something that they have a right to pontificate upon.

But that is exactly what they're doing, because that is why they feel that Judea, Canaan, the Holy Land, Israel, Palestine is something that they have a right to pontificate upon.

No, it's just because, you know, they didn't care when 500,000 people died in Iraq because of a Wall of America launch. They didn't care when 600,000 people were murdered in Syria recently, very recently, in the last 10 years. They didn't care about those people. No one protested for those people. They haven't cared when 150,000 people in Sudan now in the last nine months have been killed.

No, it's just because, you know, they didn't care when 500,000 people died in Iraq because of a Wall of America launch. They didn't care when 600,000 people were murdered in Syria recently, very recently, in the last 10 years. They didn't care about those people. No one protested for those people. They haven't cared when 150,000 people in Sudan now in the last nine months have been killed.

No, it's just because, you know, they didn't care when 500,000 people died in Iraq because of a Wall of America launch. They didn't care when 600,000 people were murdered in Syria recently, very recently, in the last 10 years. They didn't care about those people. No one protested for those people. They haven't cared when 150,000 people in Sudan now in the last nine months have been killed.

No one has mentioned these people. And partly it's because of just old fashioned Western racism that they really don't associate with those people. Another part of it, though, is that Israel is the Holy Land. And the Holy Land is something that they've heard about in school, they've read about in the Bible, their parents have heard about in the Bible.

No one has mentioned these people. And partly it's because of just old fashioned Western racism that they really don't associate with those people. Another part of it, though, is that Israel is the Holy Land. And the Holy Land is something that they've heard about in school, they've read about in the Bible, their parents have heard about in the Bible.

No one has mentioned these people. And partly it's because of just old fashioned Western racism that they really don't associate with those people. Another part of it, though, is that Israel is the Holy Land. And the Holy Land is something that they've heard about in school, they've read about in the Bible, their parents have heard about in the Bible.

It's kind of bred into them over a thousand years.

It's kind of bred into them over a thousand years.