Chance: A fine thing

This month, aside from drenching each other in buckets of ice water, social media users have distinguished themselves by attributing a quotation to David Attenborough that includes phrases such as ‘Israelis are worse than any animal, even crocodiles… they kidnap children and harvest their organs’.

Excited by the idea that such a respected man, the incarnation of liberal, humane, educated Britain, would spout this rivers-of-bloodlibel rhetoric, lovers and haters of Israel …