There is a worthwhile article in the Washington Times today, “One subject publishers in Britain will not touch” (thanks to Steve), about anti-Semitic and anti-Israel prejudices in the British media — which attitudes of course play into the hands of the global jihad. At one point the piece quotes the always superbly insightful Melanie Phillips on the media’s double standard, which is still all-pervasive and applies to the United States as well:
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.”