Editorial
Tom Clark
When the facts change
“I’ve always been a supporter of Israel,” wrote the Conservative peer Daniel Finkelstein this summer, “ever since my mum told me about the people who had left Belsen with her on the train and found themselves homeless.” That isn’t a perspective to be casually dismissed. Nor is that of Nasser Nawaja, the Palestinian Donald Macintyre (p26) met in the West Bank. His father was displaced as a toddler by the state’s creation; he was then carried from his own home on his father’s shoulders when the settlers arrived, and he could soon be forced to uproot his own toddler in turn.