And if raising questions about Israel's policies inflames anti-Semitism (and how can it not among the fever swamps of hate out there?), should that therefore prevent us from airing such questions? The chilling implications of this kind of argument are profound - and inimical to free discourse.
A video of Moroccan youths insulting a rabbi on a street in Amsterdam has prompted the Dutch justice minister to consider using undercover police wearing yarmulkes, Jewish skullcaps. The officers have been nicknamed "decoy Jews" by the press