Three Wise Monkeys

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ee no evil hear no evil speak no evil. This admonition of the three wise monkeys is part of the daily vocabulary — even if not the behavior — of all civilized people. But there is one people concerning whom these three monkeys are stood on their heads. About that people there is just the reverse: See only evil hear only evil speak only evil. Which people? Who else?

Examples abound:

• A popular writer for Ha’aretz the so-called “New York Times ofIsrael” calls the State of Israel evil.

• A fringe Orthodox anti-Israel group even more extreme than Neturei Karta callsIsraelevil.

• The virulent BDS movement (boycott divest sanction) calls the State of Israel racist.