Alan M. Dershowitz: Israel Does Not Cause Anti-Semitism | Gatestone Institute

In a recent letter to the New York Times, the current Earl of Balfour, Roderick Balfour, argued that it is Israel’s fault that there is „growing anti-Semitism around the world.“ Balfour, who is a descendent of Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary who wrote the Balfour Declaration a hundred years ago, wrote the following: „the increasing inability of Israel to address [the condition of Palestinians], coupled with the expansion into Arab territory of the Jewish settlements, are major factors in growing anti-Semitism around the world.“ He argued further that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu „owes it to the millions of Jews around the world“ who suffer anti-Semitism, to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict.