It is so easy to criticise Israel. Yet there is no country on Earth that is so surrounded by neighbours so willing to exterminate it, who are so numerous and so able to fund delegitimisation strategies of the nation they wish to exterminate.

It is not a coincidence that the shrill shouting of supposed human rights activists are so profoundly silent when those neighbours of Israel commit the most heinous of crimes. There is no condemnation, no boycotts, no shouting from every medium of communication as there is against Israel – one of very few true democracies in the region.

Israel is attempting to avoid annihilation. The attempts to de-legitimise it are attempts to defang that capability – no more – no less.

It would be nice to interpret the cacophany of protest against Israel as a cacophany of support for human rights. In the absence of balance and fairness, the only possible, rational interpretation is a cacophany of anti-semitism. And don’t fall for the argument that says the protest is against Israel and not Jews. Only the anti-Semite pushes that argument – just look around and open your eyes.

There is a massive disaster in the making unless balance, fairness, equality and tolerance are reintroduced into the equation.