Israel hit an Iranian synagogue during Passover, and the people who always claim to defend Jews suddenly found other things to talk about. Right, so Israel has hit a synagogue in Tehran during Passover, and the people who are usually first out of the blocks whenever something like this happens, an attack on Jews, an antisemitic strike as it readily gets called, have not exactly been trampling over each other in the rush to denounce it. It’s not like this event has been particularly hidden either, much has been made of it in regional news outlets, it’s just the Western ones that have tucked the story away, as if it is just a footnote for policy wonks with too much free time, if they have bothered to cover it at all. And frankly when you’ve seen the devastation Israel have wrought, that silence is all the more inexcusable. Appalling scenes, but als ...