The UN is rationalizing the slaughter of Jews

Where does it come from? That's the question many people are asking about the shocking refusal on the part of so many academics, artists and other members of the chattering classes to unreservedly condemn the Hamas terrorist organization and the horrifying crimes that it committed on Oct. 7.

At the heart of all of the answers to these questions is antisemitism, a virus that has proved itself capable of assuming many guises and adapting itself to multiple circumstances over the course of the last century.

But it's not good enough to simply ascribe this to Jew-hatred. We need to understand why people who don't think themselves to be antisemitic are doing this. Self-identified progressives believe that their views are, by definition, antithetical to an ideology of hatred. Yet they are nonetheless espousing a point of view that either implicitly or explicitly countenances or otherwise rationalizes a global attitude that enables Hamas.

At the root of the problem is an institution that most people in Israel and the United States tend to ignore: the United Nations.

The most recent example of this came this week when UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres sought to rationalize the Hamas atrocities as the result of the alleged mistreatment of Palestinian Arabs. He said: "It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum." Guterres had told the U.N. Security Council this on Tuesday, claiming that "the Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. "They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced; and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing," he added.

He tried to walk this back by tweeting that "the grievances of the Palestinian people cannot justify the horrific attacks by Hamas. Those horrendous attacks cannot justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people." So even when subsequently condemning the Hamas massacres, he compounded the problem by doubling down on the assumption of a moral equivalence between the complaints of the Palestinians and the acts of sheer barbarism committed by Hamas...

Hamas-ruled Gaza isn't occupied. The last Jew left in 2005, and since 2007, it's operated as an independent Palestinian state in all but name. The stifling of the Palestinian economy in both Gaza, as well as Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank"), which is ruled autonomously by the Palestinian Authority, is due entirely to the corruption and tyranny of Hamas and P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party. Palestinians haven't been displaced since they fled in 1948 when Israel became an independent state. At the same time, an even greater number of Jews were forced to flee from their homes in the Arab and Muslim world. If hopes for a political solution have been vanishing, it is because Palestinian leaders have refused multiple offers of independence and statehood dating back to 1947 since that would have also required them to live in peace with the Jewish nation.

Hamas terrorists aren't seeking a two-state solution or aim to adjust Israel's policies or borders. They aim for its destruction and the genocide of its Jewish population. Yet Guterres and the many otherwise respectable people in the West who echo his falsehoods to excuse their refusal to condemn Hamas and back Israel act as if the last 75 years of history didn't happen or doesn't matter.

The rise of intersectionality and critical race theory (CRT), which promote the division of the world into two immutable warring racial camps of victims and oppressors, has resulted in the acceptance of mainstream discussions about Israel being a state of "white privilege" and guilty of mistreating Palestinian "people of color." Such distinctions are irrelevant to the Middle East, where Jews are as likely to be “people of color since the majority of Israeli Jews trace their origins to the Middle East or North Africa as Arabs. Moreover, it is the Jews who are the "indigenous" people of the country.

In the moral panic that followed the death of George Floyd in May 2020, even legacy Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (whose job is to oppose antisemitism) endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement that was itself steeped in anti-Jewish thinking. Desperate to remain in sync with their left-wing allies and fashionable opinion, such groups ignored the consequences that the widespread acceptance that these toxic theories received was bound to create.

Once a movement and ideology that accepted the specious notion that the Palestinian war to destroy Israel was in some way connected to the struggle for civil rights in the United States became accepted by liberal opinion as valid, the next step was inevitable. It was only a matter of time before a considerable portion of elite American opinion was going to start treating Hamas terrorism as nothing more than the Jews getting their comeuppance.

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