The election marked the greatest victory and validation for anti-Semitism in America since 1941. - Bradley Burston

I used to be one of those people who took issue with the label of apartheid as applied to Israel. I was one of those people who could be counted on to argue that, while the country's settlement and occupation policies were anti-democratic and brutal and slow-dose suicidal, the word apartheid did not apply. I'm not one of those people any more.

My daughter is an unarmed . That should matter. It should matter, in particular, to who believe, and justly so, that the inalienable rights of human beings, children in particular, take clear precedence over the s of and the appetites of nationalism.

I used to be a person who wanted to believe that there were moral and democratic limits – or, failing that, pragmatic constraints - to how low the prime minister was willing to go, how far he was willing to bend to the proud proponents of apartheid, in order to bolster his power. Not any more. Not after .