A few weeks ago when an Israeli army officer who had strayed into the town of Jenin was almost lynched by a Palestinian mob, it did nothing to dampen the popularity of the Palestinian cause.

Last week the European Parliament got into the lynching act itself by hosting in Brussels the UN’s “International Conference of Civil Society in Support of Israeli-Palestinian Peace.” With speaker after speaker calling for boycotting Israel, the event, said Shimon Samuel of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre in Paris, “was only about Israel as war criminal and devil.” Full Piece