The stampede in many Western countries to champion the Palestinian cause has been a thoroughly nauseating spectacle of misdirected righteousness, faddishness, and racist bigotry.
This past week, following the announcement that Ireland, Norway, and Spain proposed to recognize a yet-to-exist Palestinian state, Canada’s New Democratic Party proposed that this country do the same. This was just reflexive political opportunism by the NDP. It is a new variant on the cowardly Western practice of purporting to support both sides in a war of life and death that only one side can win.
