Jo Glanville is the editor of Looking for an Enemy: Eight Essays on Antisemitism (Short Books). It will be published in the US by Norton in August 2022.
It is the Palestinians who are stateless now. Hamas’s terrorism has caused devastating damage and death, but it does not have a military arsenal and infrastructure to compare with Israel’s – which is currently being deployed against Gaza – or such powerful allies.
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