In the September 11 post below, I wondered how the media would respond to the revelations in Sunday’s newspapers of extreme anti-Jewish bigotry and Holocaust denial among Muslim advisers to the government on combating Islamist extremism. As I feared the reaction has ranged from silence to indifference, with more than one report even appearing to endorse some of the most poisonous prejudice at the core of the Muslim demand.

There is now a real feeling of siege among the Jews of Britain. The most extraordinary anti-Jewish libels and prejudice are pouring forth from Muslims and their unholy comrades on the left — including some deracinated or pathologically embittered Jews —and yet there are no outraged or impassioned editorials condemning such bigotry, putting the record straight or warning about where all this may be leading, not just for the Jews but for the wider population. The pathological hatred of Israel and the Jews, at the very heart of which lies Holocaust denial, is central to the Muslim animus against the west. Unless this is understood, the British will never understand the danger they themselves are in. But while there is concern about Islamic extremism in Britain the assault on the Jews of Israel, and on the Jewish people as a whole, is generally put in a completely different compartment and treated to a range of attitudes stretching from indifference to endorsement.

There is therefore a real sense that the Jews are simply being abandoned — and amazingly, this seems to have increased in intensity since the July bombings in London. At present, to be a Jew in Britain feels like being under relentless ideological bombardment in a script written by Kafka. Whether it’s Holocaust denial, the lies about Israel’s ‘genocide’ of the Palestinian Arabs or the blood-lust and anarchy currently on display in Gaza, the British media are managing to blame the Jews and excuse their attackers.

Take for example the Arab torching of the abandoned synagogues in Gaza. ‘The Israelis left empty buildings,’ said Mahmoud Abbas Ph.D (Holocaust Denial). They were left intact by the Israelis because, although empty, they were still holy places. It is a hallmark of civilised peoples everywhere that they respect the holy places of others. The Israelis have never attacked mosques but have protected the places holy to all religions when they have come under their jurisdiction and refrained from attacking mosques even when the Arabs have used them as sniper points. But the rampaging Palestinian mob torched these synagogues while PA policemen passively looked on.

None of this of course is a surprise to the Jews. The destruction of Jewish holy places by Arab mobs has recurred time and again. In September 1996, Palestinian rioters destroyed a synagogue at Joseph's Tomb in Nablus. In October 2000, Joseph's Tomb burnt down after the Israeli garrison guarding it was temporarily withdrawn during Palestinian attacks. It has since been rebuilt by the Palestinian Authority as a mosque. In October 2000, the ancient synagogue in Jericho was deliberately torched and completely destroyed, while another historic synagogue in the city, with an ancient mosaic floor, was damaged and now lies derelict. Since 1996, Rachel's Tomb near Bethlehem has been attacked numerous times by Arab snipers, bombs and Molotov cocktails. When Jerusalem and Hebron were under illegal Jordanian occupation between 1948 and 1967, Jews were barred from praying at Judaism's holiest site, Jerusalem's Western Wall. Jordan also demolished all 58 synagogues in Jerusalem's Old City and Jewish grave stones were broken and used to pave roads and Jordanian army latrines.

What is so dismaying is the almost total indifference displayed by the British media, who if they reported the torching of the synagogues at all did so in a muted way -- and even, on the BBC, sought to justify it by blaming Israel. As HonestReporting.com noted:

‘The BBC TV report justified the arson mobs in this manner: “Palestinians came streaming to the settlements that caused them so much pain, to sightsee and to loot. Israel stole thirty-eight years from them; today, many were ready to take back anything they could.” ‘This is a clear example of BBC bias ― the reporter states as 'fact' that Palestinians in Gaza had their lives somehow 'stolen' by Israeli since 1967, a claim the BBC uses to rationalize the Palestinian mob violence...’

when of course, far from having their lives stolen from them, the Arabs of Gaza have spent not just thirty eight years but more than half a century attempting to exterminate the Jews from their historic homeland in Israel.

Another item on BBC News 24 on Sunday night showed the burning synagogues -- but said something to the effect that the Palestinians were in a very difficult position because Israel had refused to dismantle them. Excuse me? Why was this difficult? What, pray, was it that forced these Arabs to behave like savages towards the holy places of another faith? If it had been the Israelis burning down mosques, the British media would have been apoplectic. But Arab savagery, whether towards Jews or Christians or towards each other, is either justified or ignored.

In addition, the rapid descent of the Gaza Arabs into anarchy so great it has turned not just Hamas but Fatah against the PA and instantly threatened Egypt’s security to boot has barely been mentioned. Thus the abduction by masked gunmen of Italian journalist Lorenzo Cremonesi in the Gaza town of Deir El-Balah before releasing him unharmed; the storming the same day by 60 armed Palestinians of the local governor's headquarters and Interior Ministry offices demanding jobs with the Palestinian Authority; the gunning down of Moussa Arafat, a cousin of Yasser Arafat, who was dragged from his house by more than a dozen gunmen and shot in the street while his son Manhal, a major in the Palestinian military intelligence service, was kidnapped; and the illegal crossing of thousands of Palestinians into Egypt over the past two days prompting Egyptian security officials to file a complaint with the PA; all this has scarcely been reported, let alone commented upon.

Arab misdeeds, like Jewish victimisation, appear to be airbrushed out of history by the British media. Instead, Israel is bullied, reviled, demonised, traduced and delegitimised: the only country in the world to be so treated. No tyranny, no human rights offender, not South Africa under apartheid has ever been treated in this way by the British media -- subjected to such a sustained, obsessive, disproportionate, unfair, mendacious, prejudiced and venomous attack and such brazen double standards and moral inversion. And now the maggot of Holocaust denial has emerged from within this filth finally to reveal, to those who would not believe it, just what it is that we are up against.