Israel Not Doing Enough To Address Problems That Have Nothing To Do With It

The criticism has not restricted itself to factual events.

San Francisco, March 23 – Critics of the Jewish State continued this week to find areas in which the nation has taken either no or insufficient steps to solve issues irrelevant to that country or far beyond reasonable expectations of any state its size, such as solving the Russia-Ukraine crisis, stopping climate change, halting soil erosion in India, fighting burgeoning crime in San Francisco, or mitigating the pollution inherent in current methods of Southeast Asian strip mining, among others.

Pundits, activists, and commentators eager to find fault with Israel maintained their important focus on a country the physical size of New Jersey and a population roughly equal to that of Austria, a place with about as much influence on world affairs as the Los Angeles Clippers. Those critics have produced opinion articles, social media posts, blogs, videos, and other content to help ensure media attention remains directed at the world’s only Jewish state, and that said attention fosters outsize, unrealistic, and discriminatory expectations of that state, in keeping with the antisemitic assumptions governing the aforementioned focus.

The criticism has not restricted itself to factual events. Hollywood figures, talk show hosts, and other prominent opinion-shapers specifically called out Israel’s alleged refusal to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last month, when in fact Israel joined 193 other countries in doing exactly that at the United Nations. The same people and institutions lambasted the Jewish State for not providing aid to Ukraine, even as Israel has so far been the only provider of field hospitals within Ukraine, not merely sending volunteers to aid refugees in countries on Ukraine’s western borders, where Israeli volunteer and government organizations have also contributed materials, aid, and other support out of proportion to Israel’s relatively small population.

Experts explained that both the fact-based and spurious criticisms stem from sensibilities that do not permit anything associated with Jews to receive treatment using the standards as anything or anyone else. “The world appears to need to single out Jews, or the Jew among nations,” noted Tirja de Tzibbura, a Spanish journalist. “It helps provide a sense of order amid the chaos: we might not be able to understand complex phenomena, let alone exert control over our lives because of factors far beyond our capacity to affect, but at least if we pretend Jews have some special power, for good for ill, we can mitigate the existential terror that otherwise beckons. Easier to blame ‘Zionists’ than to accept that we have a limited ability to change anything big, at least in the short term.”

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