It's the after-dinner cabaret for the Tory-led toffs at the Oxford Union, of course. Is there a pattern emerging?

The motion is This House Believes That The State of Israel has a Right to Exist

Gallantly defending Israel's right to exist is Norman Finkelstein. Finkelstein proudly hosts Brazillian 'cartoonist' Latuff and his antisemitic cartoons on his website. That is the same Latuff who won second prize in President Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial art competition. Here are a couple of Latuff's blood libel images. If you don't understand why they are blood libel images, see Anthony Julius.

This is what the generous defender of Israel's right to exist had to say during the war between Israel and Hezbollah in the summer of 2006:

“Right now, and I say it publicly, right now we are all Hezbollah. All of us. You can have differences, disagreements with their ideology, with their values, with their organization. But right now at this moment that is totally and utterly irrelevant... Every victory for Hezbollah over Israel is ... a victory for liberty and a victory for freedom...”

The other generous defender of Israel's right to exist will be philosopher Ted Honderich. This is how he proposes to defend Israel:

All of us should take part in all forms of boycott against retail stores and other businesses dealing with neo-Zionist Israel, divestment, civil disobedience, non-cooperation, not voting, picketing, ostracism, naming, symbolic public acts, strikes and whatever else is rational against neo-Zionism.

And with friends like these, does Israel need Pappe and Karmi to argue that Israel has no right to exist? Pappe is fond of mirroring the rhetoric of antisemitic blood libels, arguing that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza and that he has seen a baby’s head being kicked around by Israeli soldiers as a football.

And Karmi wants to "to turn back the clock before there was a Jewish state and re-run history from there". She believes that there is no such entity as the Jewish people since they lack "biological, racial or national" characteristics. She describes Jews as a "tormented, suspicious and neurotically self-absorbed community toughened by centuries of the need to survive".

In November the Oxford Union invited antisemitic neo-Nazis David Irving and Nick Griffin to speak. Griffin is an opponent of those Jews who cry antisemitism in order to silence criticism of Israel:

"Those who claim to believe that no Jew ever does anything wrong, or that to criticise any Jew or group of Jews is a mortal sin against a group singled out by God or Hitler for special treatment and in consequence entitled ever-after to carry a globally valid 'Get Out of Jail Free' card, are clearly in the grip either of PC self-censorship or the last misguided upholders of the late 19th century 'Master Race' fantasy."

David Irving, like many other people, blames Jewish misbehaviour for antisemitism:

“They [Jews] should ask themselves the question, ‘Why have they been so hated for 3000 years that there has been pogrom after pogrom in country after country?’”

Finkelstein, Honderich, Karmi and Pappe want to boycott Israel. But they don't mind accepting invitations from the Oxford Union two months after they host Jew-hating neo-Nazis.