If Israel bombs a synagogue, suddenly western morality stops seeing Jews

The Israeli attack in Tehran damaged a synagogue during Passover. Even the Israeli army later felt compelled to justify itself and to speak of "collateral damage" . The attack was also condemned by a representative of the Jewish community in Iran in parliament.

The Jewish community in Iran is one of the oldest in the Middle East. Judaism is officially recognized in Iran, Jews have a reserved seat in parliament, and the number of community members is usually estimated at several thousand, including in Tehran, Shiraz, and Isfahan. But when Jews are not bombed in a “proper” country, a large part of the western media machinery quickly loses its voice.

And this is not the first such story. The main synagogue of Beirut, Maghen Abraham, was severely damaged during the Israeli bombardments in 1982. Even then, one could have talked a lot about "sensitivity," "religious objects," and "unacceptability" , but for some reason, the whole right rhetoric is usually activated selectively.

The story with Iraq from the early 1950s remains to this day one of the dirtiest topics in the region: Historians have been arguing for years over the role of the Zionist underground in the explosions at Jewish sites in Baghdad, after which the mass exodus of Iraqi Jews began. The dispute over the details is not settled there. But the fact that such accusations arose at all and have not disappeared for decades already says a lot about the methods used to build this "safe project for Jews."

The problem is simple. When Jews become a convenient symbol – they are shouted at from the podiums. When Jews are caught under Israeli bombs – the usual game of formulations, qualifications, and "collateral damage" begins. And this hypocrisy has long been visible to the naked eye.

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