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The Hamas attack resembled a medieval Mongol raid for slaughter and human trophies—except it was recorded in real time and published to social media. Yet since October 7, Western academics, students, artists, and activists have denied, excused, or even celebrated the murders by a terrorist sect that proclaims an anti-Jewish genocidal program. Some of this is happening out in the open, some behind the masks of humanitarianism and justice, and some in code, most famously “from the river to the sea,” a chilling phrase that implicitly endorses the killing or deportation of the 9 million Israelis. It seems odd that one has to say: Killing civilians, old people, even babies, is always wrong. But today say it one must.
How can educated people justify such callousness and embrace such inhumanity? All sorts of things are at play here, but much of the justification for killing civilians is based on a fashionable ideology, “decolonization,” which, taken at face value, rules out the negotiation of two states—the only real solution to this century of conflict—and is as dangerous as it is false.
I always wondered about the leftist intellectuals who supported Stalin, and those aristocratic sympathizers and peace activists who excused Hitler. Today’s Hamas apologists and atrocity-deniers, with their robotic denunciations of “settler-colonialism,” belong to the same tradition but worse: They have abundant evidence of the slaughter of old people, teenagers, and children, but unlike those fools of the 1930s, who slowly came around to the truth, they have not changed their views an iota. The lack of decency and respect for human life is astonishing: Almost instantly after the Hamas attack, a legion of people emerged who downplayed the slaughter, or denied actual atrocities had even happened, as if Hamas had just carried out a traditional military operation against soldiers. October 7 deniers, like Holocaust deniers, exist in an especially dark place.
The decolonization narrative has dehumanized Israelis to the extent that otherwise rational people excuse, deny, or support barbarity. It holds that Israel is an “imperialist-colonialist” force, that Israelis are “settler-colonialists,” and that Palestinians have a right to eliminate their oppressors. (On October 7, we all learned what that meant.) It casts Israelis as “white” or “white-adjacent” and Palestinians as “people of color.”
This ideology, powerful in the academy but long overdue for serious challenge, is a toxic, historically nonsensical mix of Marxist theory, Soviet propaganda, and traditional anti-Semitism from the Middle Ages and the 19th century. But its current engine is the new identity analysis, which sees history through a concept of race that derives from the American experience. The argument is that it is almost impossible for the “oppressed” to be themselves racist, just as it is impossible for an “oppressor” to be the subject of racism. Jews therefore cannot suffer racism, because they are regarded as “white” and “privileged”; although they cannot be victims, they can and do exploit other, less privileged people, in the West through the sins of “exploitative capitalism” and in the Middle East through “colonialism.”
This leftist analysis, with its hierarchy of oppressed identities—and intimidating jargon, a clue to its lack of factual rigor—has in many parts of the academy and media replaced traditional universalist leftist values, including internationalist standards of decency and respect for human life and the safety of innocent civilians. When this clumsy analysis collides with the realities of the Middle East, it loses all touch with historical facts.
Indeed, it requires an astonishing leap of ahistorical delusion to disregard the record of anti-Jewish racism over the two millennia since the fall of the Judean Temple in 70 C.E. After all, the October 7 massacre ranks with the medieval mass killings of Jews in Christian and Islamic societies, the Khmelnytsky massacres of 1640s Ukraine, Russian pogroms from 1881 to 1920—and the Holocaust. Even the Holocaust is now sometimes misconstrued—as the actor Whoopi Goldberg notoriously did—as being “not about race,” an approach as ignorant as it is repulsive.
Contrary to the decolonizing narrative, Gaza is not technically occupied by Israel—not in the usual sense of soldiers on the ground. Israel evacuated the Strip in 2005, removing its settlements. In 2007, Hamas seized power, killing its Fatah rivals in a short civil war. Hamas set up a one-party state that crushes Palestinian opposition within its territory, bans same-sex relationships, represses women, and openly espouses the killing of all Jews.
Very strange company for leftists.
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https://archive.ph/2023.10.28-061758/https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/decolonization-narrative-dangerous-and-false/675799/
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@Zaphryn LOL. "Gaza is not technically occupied by Israel".
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@Zaphryn And what did you learn? Please do share your position.
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@blingring You can laugh and mock elsewhere.
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@Zaphryn OK. So Gaza is not occupied in your view?
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@blingring Israel pulled out of Gaza in 2005 and with it thousands of settlers, even graveyards. It has been blocked because of Hamas and the constant threat of terrorist attacks. I am sure you know this. It is spelled out in the article and you can find it on Wiki and numerous other sources.
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@Zaphryn I didn't ask for his view, I asked for yours.
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@blingring My view is I agree with this article, if that much wasn't obvious.
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@Zaphryn How?
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@blingring I really don't see the point in reiterating the article to you. He spells it out in numerous paragraphs, and you can find him on Twitter if you desire elaborations.
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@Zaphryn This is not a "leftist analysis". This lost me there. Framing what is going ln as a left vs right, culture war is ridiculous. I guess we frame to our current social narrative should be expected.
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@blingring It is an analysis on leftists and their behavior. It is just as relevant as it is for trans activism.
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@Zaphryn LOL. Dude. I personally paid for this site for a long time from inception. Do fuck off 😘🤣
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@blingring You're the one on my post, lol.
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@Zaphryn And yet....
And what did you learn? Please do share your position.
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@blingring I already knew what was in the article. He just makes an excellent point spelling out the TRA like activism seen in left circles and how it contradicts its own values. Feel free to read.
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@blingring @Zaphryn Israel is a normal country. With lunatics at their border. They have normal operations with the exception of the utter and complete fuckin lunatics who would barge in to stab people to death if given the chance.
Go talk to the lunatic terrorists if you want answers. And don't be puking out any of you're apartheid nonsense. It's too stupid to even warrant an argument.
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@SomaliRose @Zaphryn No, really? Who knew. What proportion of the Gaza and West Bank population, eager to learn.
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@SomaliRose @Zaphryn I mean, black South Africans " crossed over" every day to do their jobs and then went home. It was helped by pass books. Do Arabs in Gaza and the West Bank have pass books before they leave? At wnat time do they leave? What happens if I don't leave or outstay my welcome with my pass book?
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@Zaphryn @blingring And in fact, Palestinian workers cross over into Israel every day to do their jobs. Then they go home. They also fly out of the region through Israel's airports.
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@blingring Not out of malice, but security.
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@Zaphryn Israel continues to manage air, maritime and land access control over Gaza post "Disengagement Plan Implementation" 2005 🙄But yes, they "pulled out".
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@Zaphryn Interesting indeed.
Also, I'm fascinated by the concept of Israeli jews whose family were living in Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Lebanon etc for hundreds of years until they were cast out or threatened with execution, being white but the people still living in those nations who choose to believe in Islam are...people of color.
They're the same fuckin shade of person. This hyperfixation on skin shade is just as insane as it was when white people pulled it 200 years ago.
Just sounds like you're "of color" if you practice Islam. Basically.
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@PonyPanda @Svantovit @SomaliRose @blingring Ah, yes, Israel created Hamas, then they let them in to get an excuse to destroy what they created. Makes sense. 1st rule of anti-semitism, everything is the Jews' fault. And totally, love it when Islamists backed by Iran and Russia strike back at party goers, babies, the elderly and pets, live-streaming it on SoMe. Such justice.
Don't support islamism, but you support Hezbollah? 😏
I think you're just the definition of a lonely troll. I hope you feel a little warmer now.
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@Zaphryn @PonyPanda @SomaliRose @blingring
Funny how the "lonely troll" is more well-informed than the illuminated feminist, huh?
https://archive.vn/Ij93p
From the mouths of imaginary Jewish babes.
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@Zaphryn @Svantovit @SomaliRose @blingring you know who else supported Hamas right? Israel. Specifically because they were Islamist unlike the secular and moderate PLO. Don't fucking come at me with your pharisaic pilpul. I don't support Islamism or violence in and of themselves. But you lying fucks always love to omit context. I support a victim striking back at their bully. It's not a pretty sight but that's what you fucking get when you confine people to an open air concentration camp.
So fuck off.
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@Zaphryn @Svantovit @SomaliRose @blingring absolutely. It was a prison break.
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@PonyPanda @Svantovit @SomaliRose @blingring If you support a jihadist terror organization that doesn't give two shits about Palestinians, and who rape, mutilate, torture, decapitate, burn alive and murder Israeli civilians, then.. you clearly don't give a shit about Palestinians, freedom or peace at all. You're just a raging anti-semite looking for an excuse to take off the mask.
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@Zaphryn @Svantovit @SomaliRose @blingring
>Based on the charter, the 1970 United Nations General Assembly Resolution 2625 explicitly endorsed a right to resist "subjection of peoples to alien subjugation, domination and exploitation". Based on this, many scholars argue that the right to resist exists in customary international law where self-determination is at issue.
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@PonyPanda @Svantovit @SomaliRose @blingring Do you think what Hamas did on Oct 7 classifies as resistance?
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@PonyPanda @Svantovit @SomaliRose @blingring And what's your thoughts on Hamas?
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@PonyPanda @Svantovit @SomaliRose @blingring You're the ones dropping by, and you really don't have to.
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@Zaphryn @Svantovit @SomaliRose @blingring fuck you and fuck your fake pirate country and the evil monsters dwelling in it.
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@Svantovit @SomaliRose @Zaphryn @blingring yeah but I figure most people know when they don't know about geopolitics and they keep quiet.
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@PonyPanda @SomaliRose @Zaphryn @blingring
It's just standard women dropping by to show you they know absolutely nothing about geopolitics...or anything outside of arts and crafts, in general.
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@PonyPanda @SomaliRose @blingring Alrightyo.
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@Zaphryn @SomaliRose @blingring important question: Are you jewish?
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@PonyPanda @SomaliRose @blingring WELL then. Hamas is obviously sanctuary, definitely not a threat.
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@Zaphryn @SomaliRose @blingring what are you talking about you fucking Hasbara shill? Fuck Israel and fuck you.
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@SomaliRose @blingring @Zaphryn
>Israel is a normal country. With lunatics at their border.
LMAO.
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@PonyPanda @SomaliRose @Zaphryn @blingring
Yeah, but you probably care about brown people for the same reason you call Israelis "white Europeans." Which they'll explain in detail and how they hate the Sons of Esav [White Europeans], if you listen.
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@Svantovit @Zaphryn @SomaliRose @blingring I care about brown people.
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@Svantovit @PonyPanda @SomaliRose @blingring I know where the "Netanyahu supported Hamas" argument goes, you wanna blame Israel for its creation while also blaming Israel for the attack, and so on and on it goes. You can criticize the hell out of Netanyahu, and most Israelis I've seen do so, but you can't in the same breath yell "Free Palestine" and call Hamas freedom fighters. And then whenever you're confronted with the horrors of Hamas, you just point at Netanyahu. Nope.
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@Zaphryn @PonyPanda @SomaliRose @blingring
Which horrors are you referring to? Are they the ones the Israelis won't let us see or the ones Ben Shapiro has AI generated?
I don't give a shit about brown people, trollop. Israel has made its bed and I'm tired of seeing my more naive and gullible cousins and brothers being forced by cunts like you to go lie in it.
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