Four hundred days later, I still remember the images of a crowd shouting “Gas the Jews!” in front of the Sydney Opera House. Yes, those were not the years of Adolf Hitler’s national socialism, nor were they skinheads who were complaining. It was the 21st century and the cries come from Arab migrants. They do not fly the swastika flag, but those of Palestine and Hamas.
On October 7, 2023, that terrorist group launched an attack called Al-Aqsa Storm that left 1,200 dead in Israel and more than 200 kidnapped, the worst day since the Holocaust for Jews. Now that President-elect Trump has appointed New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik as U.N. ambassador, it seems that the White House is willing to actually protect the Jewish community. Anti-Semites should be trembling.
How does the West, which had successfully combated Jew-hatred since World War II, now see new public calls to eliminate individuals for the crime of breathing and belonging to an ethnic and cultural group? The migratory waves from the Arab world to the old continent rejuvenated the anti-Semitic panorama, and being a not insignificant number of the population, we have seen their women trample the flowers and candles of the memorials for the victims or tear off the posters of the Israelis kidnapped by Hamas.
During this time, the weakness of the liberal elites that rule in the West is notable. They have lost their moral compass. If a father claims the right to educate his children in accordance with his values, he is a terrorist; but if a mob clamors for ethnic lynchings, silence.
The BBC has said it would not call Hamas terrorists “terrorists,” as one former BBC journalist has noted. Burning entire families of civilians alive in their cars or homes; raping young girls next to the corpses of their friends; kidnapping Holocaust survivors and children to Gaza; machine-gunning and decapitating babies; none of this should disturb the verbal neatness of journalists in their ivory towers.
Those in the middle who don’t take clear stands on issues, with more titles than intelligence, crossed the moral equivalence between victims and perpetrators with “wisdom.” They believed they were pretending to be virtuous by blaming the only democracy in the Middle East instead of the jihadism that cut the bellies of pregnant women and stabbed unborn children with daggers.
Feminism likes to say that silence is complicity, that neutrality in the face of violence against women is complicity. All this ceases to apply when the State of Israel is attacked with the express purpose of exterminating the Jews.
The good-natured mediocrity of the “intellectual” class, which is a farce of justice, and the feverish Islamist violence have united in the same chorus of justifications for barbarism. In Raval, Barcelona, a group of anti-Israelis walked behind a banner that read “honor to the martyrs ,” thus, with “inclusive” language, so that there is no doubt that the same newspeak of the Left identifies the jihadists who open the thighs of screaming women.
They would be the first that the Muslim radicals would eliminate once they took control. It’s happened before. Leftist support for the Islamic Revolution in Iran is known. Both wanted the fall of the Iranian monarchy. The socialist Tudeh Party had several political prisoners in the Shah’s prisons, who, once the monarchy fell, were executed by Muslim revolutionaries.
The Left, unable to appreciate that the Western world, founded on Christianity, is the best possible environment to keep one’s head on one’s shoulders, believed that it was united with the Muslims by the religious cries of “freedom, justice, dignity!”
Islamist justice is focused on two main things: punishments such as the Law of Talion and stoning, and charity and payment of alms. As for freedom, only “Islamic” parties would exist, because the others are not mentioned in the Koran.
The use of the term “oppressed” should refer to those persecuted for their faith, not to the proletarian masses.
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