But you know as well as I do that, somehow, the Israeli government is placed on a pedestal [in the US], and to criticise it is to be immediately dubbed anti-semitic, as if the Palestinians were not semitic. […] People are scared in this country [the US], to say wrong is wrong because the Jewish lobby is powerful - very powerful.

Desmond Tutu (Nobel Peace Prize laureate) “Apartheid in the Holy Land”, The Guardian, 2002