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Ken Keeps Digging
When you find yourself in a hole, it's a good idea to stop digging. Unfortunately, London's Mayor Ken Livingstone is not renowned for listening to sensible counsel, so he'll probably ignore Melanie Philip's warning that he's still digging.
Once again, the Guardian gave him a column to defend himself against accusations of anti-semitism; once again he complained that anyone, like him, who criticises Israel is accused of anti-semitism.
Once again, wiser commentators like Melanie Philips have to explain wearily why this is not the case:
"To repeat for the nth time: the issue is not criticism of Israel, to which no-one objects. The issue is a process of demonisation, dehumanisation and delegitimisation, based on lies and libels, in which Israel alone of all the countries of the world is singled out through such lies and distortions to be a scapegoat, which is a way of softening up the world for its destruction; and then to cap it all, the vilification of Jews who protest at this monstrosity, for which they are accused in a further distortion of doing something that they are not doing, ie claiming that all critics of Israel are antisemites."
