Strange: Dhimmi Watch has a post about an article in the Washington Times, supposedly today. It’s by Clive Davis, and features Melanie Phillips on Israel and anti-semitism – only the url suggests it’s from 2003. Nevermind: it’s still relevant:
At the Guardian, where she later served as news editor, she found herself increasingly at odds with the conventional wisdom. “I used to have this argument at the Guardian, which amazed and horrified me. I used to say, ‘Why do we make a front page splash when the Israelis kill five Palestinians, when the murder of thousands of Muslims by Muslims is a nib on page seven? It’s a double standard.’ And they would say, ‘Of course it’s a double standard because we hold Jews to account by Western standards. We can’t judge the Third World by our standards.’ When I first heard this argument I was gobsmacked [stunned], because to me it was racist. It’s moral and cultural relativism.”
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