BRITISH MAG: JEWISH YOUTHS = MUSLIM TERRORISTS

New Statesman: Jewish Youths = Muslim Terrorists (HonestReporting)
UK Jewish teens on IDF programmes are falsely equated with Muslim youths in terror training camps.

In today's multicultural Britain, it is accepted that different ethnic and religious groups have close ties with ancestral homelands in other parts of the world. Unless, in the eyes of the New Statesman, you are Jewish.

In January 2002, the New Statesman printed an infamous front cover entitled "Kosher conspiracy" featuring a Star of David standing on top of a Union Jack, for which the editor was forced to apologise following widespread condemnation. The feature article itself attempted to portray British Jewish supporters of Israel as subscribing to a nefarious agenda incompatible with their British identities. Now it appears that the New Statesman is also questioning the motivations of Jewish youth movements' legitimate ties to Israel.

In an article on Jewish gap year students taking part in IDF volunteer programmes in Israel, Matthew Holehouse makes it clear in the first paragraph where he wishes to lead his readers, referring to Islamic Jihad summer schools in Gaza teaching Palestinian adolescents to become suicide bombers. The scene is therefore set to ensure that the reader will draw a moral equivalence between the activities of Jewish and Palestinian youths.