Simon Sebag Montefiore Quotes

It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.

The Right is simply more pro-Israel than the Left.

The Europeans do tend to delegitimize Israel and turn Israel into a dirty word, which is unforgivable.

The people who believe themselves to be on the left, and who defend the agents of Islam in the name of tolerance and culture, are being rightwing. Not just rightwing. Extreme rightwing. I don't understand how you can be so upset about the Christian right and just ignore the Islamic right. I'm talking about equality.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

When people criticize Zionism, they mean Jews.

Those who single out Israel for unique criticism not directed at countries with far worse human rights records are themselves guilty of international bigotry.

The UN doesn’t take any moral stands unless its against Israel.

Every time I criticize the anti-Zionists, they say, 'You are trying to silence us.' I don't deny there are some people who are critical of Israel who are not anti-Semitic. But to criticize Israel, and then criticize Zionism, is not quite the same thing.

The founder of the BDS movement is blatantly anti-Semitic.

There's a conflation between the critique of the state of Israel and their policies with anti-Semitism, which I think is really flawed and inaccurate.

On the far left, just as there is on the far right there is a dislike of Israel, not just a dislike, a hatred of Israel.

Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction - out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East - is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.

What the Jews need is a nice, big war. Then they can crack down on the dissidents. Then they can call us "subversives." Then they can call us "unpatriotic," because we will be against their war...

Arab anti-Zionism has become the contemporary code word for anti-Semitism.

That people in Germany are threatened and abused because of their Jewish appearance or their support for Israel is an outrageous scandal that we won’t accept.

I have written to Israel's friends around the world, including the U.S. Congress and the E.U., and asked them to make funding for the United Nations dependent on ending blatant discrimination against Israel at the U.N. Human Rights Council.

Jews must be able to live with enemies and defend themselves from them. The hatred for Israel has not disappeared.

Pat Buchanan has written and said a number of things that are widely understood to be hostile to Jews and to Israel.

Maybe some people are attracted to the alt-right that are homophobes, right? But that's just like, there are certain elements of the progressive left and the hard left that attract certain element.

When someone denies the right of Israel to exist, it hurts us, just as an attack on a close member of our family would hurt us.

I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.

I believe that much of Hollywood is confused about Israel.

I have a very clear view, which is that if you disagree with the policies of Israel, fine, say so, but that is never a reason to take that out on Jewish communities.

Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous.