The Modern Swastika Quotes

“When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long.”
― Andrew Roberts, The Modern Swastika: Fighting Today's anti-Semitism

“Israel is denounced as a colonial State, an artificial state, a new state, as though that’s unusual in the region. Jordan, Syria and Iraq all owe their genesis to the 1920s rather than the ancient mists of Time,”
― Andrew Roberts, The Modern Swastika: Fighting Today's anti-Semitism

“We owe to the Jews,’ wrote Winston Churchill in 1920, ‘a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all wisdom and learning put together.”
― Andrew Roberts, The Modern Swastika: Fighting Today's anti-Semitism

“On Liberty, ‘that truth, merely as truth, has any inherent power denied to error, of prevailing against the dungeon and the stake.”
― Andrew Roberts, The Modern Swastika: Fighting Today's anti-Semitism

“In the year 2000 at Camp David, Yassir Arafat claimed that ‘the Temple never existed in Jerusalem, but rather in Nablus’ – three years later he was claiming it was in Yemen”
― Andrew Roberts, The Modern Swastika: Fighting Today's anti-Semitism

“The Idea of the University, Cardinal John Henry Newman’s great work defining how the republic of the mind should be governed, hailed the importance of increasing the breadth of understanding, promoting excellence in scholarship, advancing student dialogue and freedom of expression and inquiry.”
― Andrew Roberts, The Modern Swastika: Fighting Today's anti-Semitism

“Ahron Cohen, who, despite attending Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust Denial conference, in fact does not only not deny that it happened, but actually blames Jewry for it, saying: ‘There is no question that there was a Holocaust and gas chambers. There are too many eyewitnesses. However, our approach is that when one suffers, the one who perpetrates the suffering is obviously guilty but he will never succeed if the victim did not deserve it in one way or another.”
― Andrew Roberts, The Modern Swastika: Fighting Today's anti-Semitism

“A country like my own, Britain – which still occupies Gilbraltar captured in the 18th century, the Falklands captured in the 19th century and the Channel Islands which belonged to France until 1468, and rightly so in each case – is being absurdly hypocritical when it criticises Israel for retaining territory vital to her survival, which Gilbraltar, the Falklands and the Channel Island certainly aren’t to Britain’s.”
― Andrew Roberts, The Modern Swastika: Fighting Today's anti-Semitism