So the United Nations, that august body of universal irrelevance, has done it again. Israel, the only genuine democracy in the Middle East, the nation that treats its enemies with more restraint than they deserve, has been placed on the UN’s sexual violence blacklist. The charge?
Allegations of systematic sexual crimes during the Gaza campaign. Britain, ever the moral scold, demands ‘full transparency’ on Israeli operations. Let us be clear: this is a blood libel recycled for the 21st century.
The UN, an organisation that silently watches the Assad regime drop barrel bombs and Hamas store weapons in kindergartens, now finds time to lecture Israel on sexual ethics. The historical obscenity is staggering. It recalls the Dreyfus Affair, where a Jewish officer was framed by a corrupt French establishment.
Today, Israel is the collective Dreyfus, accused of crimes it did not commit by a body that has done nothing to stop actual atrocities. The British demand for transparency is particularly rich, given London’s own record in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the West’s moral compass has long been broken, spinning madly between guilt and hypocrisy.
This blacklist is not about justice. It is about delegitimising the Jewish state by any means necessary. The language of sexual violence is the new weapon of choice, because traditional warfare charges have lost their sting.
Every allegation against the IDF, a military with one of the most stringent rules of engagement, must be examined with a scepticism that the UN reserves only for Israel. The pattern is clear: first boycott, then divestment, then sanctions. Now sexual blacklists.
Next will be accusations of apartheid. The progressive vocabulary of human rights has been captured by those who would see Israel annihilated. But Britain and the UN should be careful.
The same moral vagaries they employ against Israel will eventually be turned on themselves. History teaches that empires that abandon their principles for fashionable causes collapse into decadence. The Roman Republic died when it stopped believing in its own laws.
The British Empire faded when it lost its nerve. Today, we witness the West’s intellectual decadence in real time. It is not Israel that should be blacklisted.
It is the UN itself, a body that has become a moral sewage of hypocrisy. Let Israel ignore this farce. It has survived far worse.
But for Britain to demand transparency while supporting the UN’s charade is a mark of national shame. The ghosts of Balfour and Churchill must be weeping.
