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Assange and Shamir

This photo is briskly doing the rounds, but we are nonetheless obliged to reproduce it here.

More from Jennifer Lipman at the Jewish Chronicle, as well as this excellent piece by Reason’s Michael Moynihan.

Does Julian Assange’s association with a Holocaust denier make him even less palatable than he already is? Will his relationship with Israel Shamir - the Borat lookalike standing, in proper Satanic fashion, behind the flaxen-haired crusader - lead the Jemima Khans and Bianca Jaggers and Vaughn Smiths of the concerned celebs coterie to rethink their support for Assange? I’m skeptical. And if they turn to another prominent Assange supporter, Ken Loach, for advice, he’ll just tell them antisemitism is “understandable” anyway.