The malignancy of the left

A recent JNS article highlights two events revealing what it terms the "malignancy of the left" and its impact on perceptions of Israel. First, the film "NAZA," directed by Israeli anti-Israel activists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, won a Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. The film, which claims the IDF intentionally caused widespread civilian deaths, relies on anonymous voices purportedly from Unit 8200, despite Israel reportedly achieving a low civilian-to-combatant death ratio in Gaza. Second, a report from Britain's Campaign Against Antisemitism detailed systemic intimidation and threats against Jewish patients and staff within the National Health Service, including a surgeon telling a Jewish cancer patient that Jews shoot children "in the head or the legs" for "their own amusement." The article argues that these incidents demonstrate a dangerous alliance between left-wing ideology and radical Islam, which fuels anti-Zionism and historic Jew-hatred, and criticizes the lack of seriousness with which the Israeli government addresses its own society's leftism.