There’s one question Hasan Piker and all the other fools who blame Israel for anti-Semitism can’t answer: why is it only Jews who suffer for the supposed sins of their homeland?

Why aren’t Sudanese people in Britain and America being beaten, stabbed and burnt to death for the warmongering of their ancestral nation? Why aren’t Orthodox Russian churches in London being graffitied and burnt down over Putin’s vile war in Ukraine? Why aren’t Shia Muslims in Europe being pelted with glass bottles and shot with deadly bullets for the crimes of the barbarous theocrats of Tehran who claim to be their godly patriarchs?

The sick, snivelling, victim-blaming cry that ‘Israel’s behaviour’ ignited the current global firestorm of violent Jew hatred falls at the very first hurdle. For until we see Russians in New York being spat on and having their hair violently yanked by bourgeois hysterics yelling ‘Baby killers!’, or rich Saudis in Paris being knifed in the heart by bigots in masks calling them ‘Islamist filth’, we will know that the reason Jews in the West are being harassed, abused, assaulted, denigrated and murdered is not because of anything Israel has done – it’s because they are Jews.

Piker, the rich-boy Twitcher who titillates Ivy League leftists with his 9/11 sympathising and myopic Israelophobia, rattled even the morally comatose Democratic establishment this week with his Israel-bashing. It’s the genocidal lunacy of the Jewish State, he said, that is endangering world Jewry. It is evil Israel’s claim to be fighting for every Jew that has led to every Jew becoming a potential target of the mob’s venomous loathing. So long as Jews tie their identity to a nation that is basically ‘Jewish ISIS’, they’ll be ‘making anti-Semitism worse’, he said. In short, the dumb fucks are hanging a target sign around their own necks.

Let’s leave to one side the swirling, blood-libellous branding of Israel as ‘Jewish ISIS’, not least since it was the invaders of Israel three years ago who really behaved like ISIS with their hacking of Nepalese heads and their rape-murder of ‘infidel’ Jewish women. The even grosser claim is that there is a logical link – albeit a regrettable one – between what the Jewish nation does and what the Jews of the world endure. One of the gravest moral crimes under the rule of the woke is to ‘victim blame’. Except when it comes to You Know Who. They and they alone may be giddily damned as the venal authors of their own torment.

In a suit and tie on one of his hours-long, soul-eating livestreams, Piker said that ‘if Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action, not against the State of Israel mind you, but against American Jews’. There it is. Plainly put. In all its neo-fascist horror. If you’re an American Jew and you’re pro-Israel, you risk attack. Your alignment with that ‘genocidal’ entity is putting your own life and limb at risk. How about being a good Jew and saying ‘Fuck Israel’?

Even for the Dem elites who cosied up to Piker in the demented belief that he would breathe life into their knackered brand, his ‘What do you expect, Jews?’ schtick has proven too much. Hakeem Jeffries, New York Democrat and House Minority leader, didn’t hold back. ‘The malicious claim that American Jews are inviting violence against themselves is dangerous and anti-Semitic’, he said. He continued: ‘There is zero justification for threats against the safety of our Jewish brothers and sisters at a moment of rising hate.’ Even Abdul El-Sayed – the Dem candidate for the US Senate in Michigan who’s been rubbing Piker like a genie’s lamp of stardust and ‘authenticity’ – has distanced himself from Piker’s mad comments.

I have no sympathy with these arse-covering Dems. For if they can hear and read, they would know that the pondscum idea that Jews invite violence upon themselves by backing Israel has been a rancid belief of the Islamo-left for years. Others who are a tad more morally sophisticated – ‘tad’ being the operative word – don’t berate Jews themselves but instead say the Jewish State is the problem. As that most one-eyed basher of Israel – Owen Jones – said in defence of Piker: ‘It is an obvious undeniable fact that Israel’s actions are fuelling anti-Semitism.’ When a middle-class canceller says something is ‘obvious’ and ‘undeniable’, it’s usually neither.

Let’s put this evil bullshit to bed once and for all. First, as already mentioned, the descendants of other nations that have committed far greater crimes than Israel’s are not being attacked day and night – why not? Next, explain this: why did violent Israelophobia – which is just Jew hatred in drag – precede what you call ‘the genocide’ but which most normal people call the Israel-Hamas War? It’s almost as if Jews in Europe and America are being attacked for the goddamn racist hell of it rather than because of the ‘Gaza genocide’. Finally: what happened to the great woke sin of victim-blaming? Why is it victim-blaming to say blacks invite racism upon themselves through their ‘bad behaviour’ but fine to spout the same regressive drivel about Jews? Singling Jews out for a species of moral judgement that is applied to no other race on Earth – if only there was a word for that…

Let’s cut to the chase: it isn’t Israel’s behaviour that is endangering the world’s Jews – it’s the Islamo-left’s lies about Israel’s behaviour. It is their treacharous bastardisation of a war as a ‘genocide’, and their libellous branding of civilian casualties as ‘baby killing’, that has resuscitated the wheezing zombie of Jew hatred. The desecrators of synagogues and destroyer of Jewish lives have all yelled ‘Genocide’ and ‘Child murder’ these past three years. Their violent hatred was fuelled not by Israel’s war against the Islamofascists of Hamas but by the Islamo-left’s viral, fascist-adjacent misinformation about that war.

Let’s put it like this. I support Israel. I call myself a Zionist. I don’t think anything like a genocide has been committed in Gaza. I want Hamas to be destroyed. And yet I have never been racially abused on the streets or seen any of my cultural institutions protested or graffitied. We all know why: I’m not a Jew.