On October 7, 2023, the moral corruption of Western politicians,journalists, radicalfeminists, and social commentators was exposed in all its fullness. On that morning, thousands of Hamas's jihadists invaded Israel and murdered some 1,200 people and wounded thousands more, with many victims being raped or tortured. Defenseless civilians were slaughtered, including elderly men and women, and babies in their cribs. Hamas terrorists kidnapped 251 others and dragged them to Gaza's terror tunnels as hostages; 85 of them did not survive.
Possibly motivated by Jew-hate cloaked in self-righteous neo-Marxist "social justice," many in the West who sympathize with Islamic terrorists were, within hours, trying to justify Hamas's atrocities byblamingIsrael. The allegations against Israel were that it was denying supposed rights of aninventedPalestinian people that "does not exist," asadmittedby senior PLO official Zoheir Mohsen in 1977 in the Dutch daily newspaperTrouw. They nevertheless repeat spurious claims to the Jews' ancestral land, on which Jews have lived continuously for nearly 4,000 years, explicitly named "Judea," and to the failure by Israel to implement what --accordingto the Palestinians themselves -- would be a "two-state solution" dedicated to taking whatever land they can get and using it as a base from which to conquer the rest.
Whatever the best political solution might be for the Palestinians, nothing can justify Hamas's October 7 atrocities, which then backfired into the deaths of many Palestiniancivilians. Hamas's jihad that day seems to have been an attempt to start eliminating Israel, and instead may end up, thanks to US President Donald J. Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, eliminating Hamas and its patron, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Much of the international media has inexplicably accused Israel of being responsible for deaths that were caused by Hamas's use of Gazan civilians ashuman shields. The irrationality of this evaluation by Islamist sympathizers might be explained as just the latest installment of the West's extensive romance withhating Jews. This hatred, even apart from its Islamic component, also is now directed against the state of Israel. It appears, therefore, that much of Europe and other nations have for decades remained fertile ground, albeit sometimes dormant, for a modern-day revival of orgiastic anti-Semitism.
Columnist Melanie Phillipsnotedon March 12 that Jews now have the dubious honor of being defamed by both sides of the political aisle, currently framing their grievances once again with updated, anti-Jewish blood libels:
"There's been growing concern in America over the increasingly mainstream belief that Israel drags it into foreign wars, a belief given rocket fuel by the war against Iran.
This belief not only ignores demonstrable reality—the thousands of Americans who have been killed by Iranian-backed terrorists or militias for almost half a century; the accelerated progress by Tehran towards nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that could reach the United States; and the Iranian regime's implacable goal of destroying America (the 'Great Satan') as well as Israel (the 'Little Satan').
"It also channels the odious image of war-mongering Jews straight out of the ancient antisemitism playbook. It's an image reflecting the belief embedded in Western culture of the demonic, cunning Jews acting covertly in their own interests to put others in danger.
"This belief was formerly confined to cranks and nut jobs on the fringes of society. No longer. Mainstreamed by the Tucker Carlson faction, it's cutting a swath across the ranks of conservatively minded, mainly young Americans.
"Last week, Brian McGinnis, a veteran U.S. Marine, burst into a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee in Washington, D.C., and yelled: 'America does not want to send its sons and daughters to war for Israel!'"
Source: Gatestone Institute :: Articles
