In response to Zac's statement about there being more attacks on Muslims than Jews, surely the issue is that there should not be attacks on either Jews or Muslims.

I know of many young Jewish people who are harangued, taunted and harassed regularly . My friend's son has been attacked twice but is still scared to go the police or to fight back. He was attacked for being Jewish and the language levelled is often about Israel and so called "Jewish control of the world."  Programs ( or should I call them Po-grams?) which portray "Zionists" as controlling the media and political policy, incite these attacks on Jews.

There is no difference between claiming  "Jews control the media" and "Zionists control the media." Both are wrong and both inflame hatred towards Jews.  I listened to a long ranting diatribe a year ago by a cafe owner who spoke openly and loudly about how "Jews control the world, the banks,  the media and politics"  and no one challenged him except me. Oborne, maybe unwittingly, will now have given more fodder to anti-semites, who will vent their spleen against Jews and Israel citing Oborne as their hero and co-conspirator.

Now I am reading these responses I feel more strongly Dispatches was not brave, original or convincing but divisive. And Israel alone cannot solve the problems in the Middle East, the West Bank is west of Jordan and Gaza borders Egypt. What are Jordan and Egypt doing to help solve the crisis?