Was Christopher Hitchens Right About Zionism and Does it Make Him an Anti-Semite?

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There’s something peculiar about the English.

Even though they — contrary to their protestations —are a mongrel race, having had the Romans, French, Danes, Celts colonize their lands at one point or another in their history, the notion of otherness does seem somewhat alien to these folk.

I write this because of the latent anti-Semitism of the English.

And this phenomenon has centuries of history from their expulsion in the 13th century to the treatment of those fleeing the pogroms in Russia and Poland and the events leading to the holocaust in Nazi Germany.

It was often said that Margaret Thatcher was the first British Prime Minister to actively court Jewish intellectuals and plutocrats when she sought to revolutionize Britain in the 70s and 80s.

So why have I written this?

Like most English men of his generation, it would appear that he had absolutely no truck with Israel and nor with its raison d’etre — Zionism.

But unlike most of his compatriots, he had absolutely no problems sharing his fundamental disagreements with zionism with the entire world.