A new policy? - Crackdown on Jewish extremists

ISRAEL’S government has never been shy about confronting critics. 

Indeed, at times it seemed to take strength from criticism levelled at it over its treatment of Palestinians, its support for land theft described as settlements and, most of all, its attitude towards the million or so people trapped in Gaza.

When this criticism, most of it entirely justified, cut particularly deeply, official spokesmen were not slow to infer that their detractors’ position was based on an unacknowledged but real anti-semitism. That implication was, and is, as offensive as it is disingenuous.