Animus verging on scandal

Critics, mostly though not exclusively European, who hammer away at Israeli misbehavior often show no concern about the dangers that beset Israel. Their one-sided animus verges on scandal. Criticism of Israeli behavior may be justified, but it loses credit when it is not balanced by an unequivocal repudiation of the rhetoric and actions of Islamic fundamentalists: Holocaust denial, fantasies of genocidal anti-Semitism, the elimination of the state of Israel, suicide bombings, and indiscriminate killing of civilians.

Eugene Goodheart takes a close look at the LRB's coverage of Hizbollah and finds '[i]ts indulgence of a virulently anti-Semitic movement... simply shameful'. (Thanks: SL.)