Former wife of the cricketer cum politician Imran Khan, Jemima Goldsmith took to Twitter to share her struggles to take a position on the ongoing deadly war between Israel and Palestine being fought at the war theatre of Gaza.
Jemima said it is a measure of the depth of their ideological intransigence and tribal myopia that so many intelligent and typically empathic people have been incapable of grasping the simple truth that you can oppose both rising antisemitism and anti-Muslim hatred.
She argued: “You can be horrified by Hamas' massacre of Israelis and condemn Israel's ongoing killing of thousands of innocent Palestinians.”
“It is so depressing to me that it is this position which is currently the most controversial and the one that will elicit the most criticism from both sides, she added.
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a day truce in which 39 Israelis and over 150 Palestinians are being freed in patches.
Film producer Jemima said that the war has escalated both Islamophobia and anti-Semitism and she condemned both.
Explaining her point on the war in the Middle East, she argued that condemning both Israel's onslaught on Gaza civilians and Hamas on October 7 actually became a controversial stance.
