The Paris International Book Fair this month plans to honor some Israeli writing, and an Islamic group doesn’t like it. Reporter Angelia Doland writes,

Each year the international fair puts the spotlight on one country. This year it is inviting 39 writers from Israel, including David Grossman, Amos Oz, A. B. Yehoshua and Aharon Appelfeld. A similar controversy is brewing about the May book fair in Turin, Italy, which is also highlighting Israeli works.

My first thought is to tell the group to shut up, but in this report, a sympathetic scholar does make a good point. He says, “Common sense should be our guide: The international community’s silence over the plight of the Palestinians is shameful enough without adding insult to injury.” That’s true. Palestinians have been abused by their own leadership and militants from Syria and elsewhere for decades. The international community should not be silent about that horrible situation and the idiotic bias of the international news agencies reporting it. End the violence. Free Palestine from the chess players of the world.