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Peruse campus literature. Watch clips from university protests. Scan interviews with pro-Hamas protestors. Read the chalk propaganda sketched on campus sidewalks. Talk to raging students in the free speech area. And the one common denominator— besides their arrogance—is their abject ignorance. Take their following tired talking points:
“Refugees”
We are told that the Palestinians after more than 75 years of residence in the West Bank and Gaza are “refugees.” If that definition were currently true, then, are the 900,000 Jews who were forcibly exiled from Muslim countries in the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia after the 1947, 1956, 1967 wars still “refugees?”
Most fled to Israel. Do they now live in “refugee” camps administrated by the UN? Are they protesting to recover their confiscated homes and wealth in Damascus, Cairo, or Baghdad? Do Jews on Western television dangle their keys to lost homes in Damascus a half-century after they were expelled?
How about the 150,000-200,000 Greek Cypriots who in 1974 were brutally driven out of their ancient homes in Northern Cyprus? Are they today living in “refugee” camps in southern Cyprus? Are Cypriot terrorists blowing themselves up in “occupied” Nicosia to recover what was stolen from them by Turkey?
Turkish president Recep Erdogan lectures the world on Palestinian “refugees,” but does he mention Turkey’s role in the brutal expulsion of 40 percent of the residents of Cyprus?
Are there campus groups organizing against Turkey on behalf of the displaced Cypriots? After being slaughtered and expelled, are the Cypriots a cause celebre in academia? Do the “refugee” cities of southern Cyprus resemble Jenin or Jericho?
For that matter, how about the 12 million German civilians who between 1945-50 were expelled, and mostly walked back from, East Prussia and parts of Eastern Europe, some with Prussian roots going back a millennium and more. Perhaps 1 million died during the expulsions.
Are any current survivors still “refugees?” If so, are they organizing for war to get back “occupied” “Danzig” and “Königsberg” for Germany? So why does the world damn Israel and romanticize the Palestinians in a way it does not with any other “refugee” group?
“Apartheid”
Israel is said to practice “apartheid,” although since 2005-06 Gaza has been autonomous. Mahmoud Abbas runs in his fashion the West Bank. Like the Hamas clique, he held elections one time in 2005, and then after his election, of course, cancelled any free election in the fashion of the one election, one time Middle East. Who forced him to do that? Zionists? Americans?
At any time, Gaza could have taken its vast wealth in annual foreign aid and become completely independent in fuel, food, and energy, without need of any such help form the “Zionist entity.”
Gaza could have capitalized on its strategic location, the world’s eagerness to help, and the natural beauty of its Mediterranean beaches. Instead, it squandered its income on a labyrinth of terrorist tunnels and rockets. Today, it snidely snickers at any mention of following the Singapore model of prosperity–a former colonial city whose World War II death count vastly surpassed that of the various wars over Gaza.
Are the Israeli Arabs—21 percent of the Israeli population—living under apartheid?
If so, it is a funny sort of oppression when they vote, hold office, form parties, and enjoy more freedom and prosperity than almost anywhere else in the Middle East under Arab autocracies. Are those in sympathy with Hamas fleeing from Israel into Gaza or the West Bank or other Arab countries to live with kindred Muslims under an autocratic and theocratic dictatorship, or do they prefer to stay in the “Zionist entity” under “apartheid?”
Where then is real apartheid?
The Uyghurs in China, fellow Muslims to Middle Easterners, who are ignored by Israel’s Islamic enemies, but who reside in China’s segregated work camps to the silence of the usually loud UN, EU, and Muslim world?
How about the Muslim Kurds? Are they second- or third-class citizens in Muslim Turkey? And how about the tens of thousands of foreign workers from India, Pakistan, and other Asian countries who labor under the kafala system in the Arab Muslim Gulf countries, and are subject to apartheid protocols that allow them no free will about how they live, travel, or the conditions of their labor?
Are campuses erupting to champion the Uyghurs, the Kurds, or the subjugated workers of the Gulf?
“Disproportionate”
Israel is now damned as “disproportionally” bombing Gaza. The campus subtext is that because Gaza’s 7,000-8,000 rockets launched at Israeli civilians have not killed enough Jews, then Israel should not retaliate for October 7 by bombing Hamas targets–shielded by impressed civilians— because it is too effective.
Would a “proportionate” response be counting up all the Israelis murdered, categorizing the horrific manner of their deaths, and then sending Israeli commandoes into Gaza during a “pause” in the fighting to murder an equal number of Gazans in the same satanic fashion?
Does the U.S. lecture Ukraine not to use to the full extent its lethal U.S. imported weaponry since the result is often simply too deadly? After all, perhaps twice as many Russians have been killed, wounded, or are missing than Ukrainian casualties. Should Ukraine have been more “proportionate?” Has President Biden ordered President Zelensky to offer the Russian aggressors a “pause” in the fighting to end the “cycle of violence?”
Or did U.S.-supplied artillery, anti-armor weapons, drones, and missiles “disproportionally” kill too many Russians? Or does the U.S. assume that since Russia attacked Ukraine at a time of peace, it deserves such a “disproportionate” response that alone will lose it the war?
For that matter, the U.S. certainly disproportionately paid back Japan for Pearl Harbor, and the Japanese brutal take-over of the Pacific, much of Asia, and China—and the barbarous way the Japanese military slaughtered millions of civilians, executed prisoners, and mass raped women. Should the U.S. have simply done a one-off retaliatory attack on the imperial fleet at Yokohama, declared a “cease-fire,” and thus ended the “cycle of violence?”
Civilian casualties
Campus activists scream that Israel has slaughtered “civilians” and is careless about “collateral damage.” They equate retaliating against mass murderers who use civilians to shield them from injury, while warning any Gazans in the region of the targeted response to leave, as the moral equivalent of deliberately butchering civilians in a surprise attack.
So did protestors mass in the second term of Barrack Obama when he focused on Predator drone missions inside Somalia, Pakistan, and Yemen to go after Islamic terrorists who deliberately target civilians?
At the time, the hard-left New York Times found the ensuing “collateral damage” in civilian deaths merely “troubling.” No matter—Obama persisted, insisting as he put it, “Let’s kill the people who are trying to kill us.” Note Obama did not expressly say the terrorists in Pakistan or Yemen were killing Americans, but “trying” to kill Americans. For him, that was, quite properly, enough reason “to kill” the potential assassins of Americans.
What would the Harvard President today say of Benjamin Netanyahu saying just that about Hamas?
We have no idea how many women, children, and elderly were in the general vicinity of a targeted terrorist in Pakistan or Yemen when an American drone missile struck. Then CIA Director John Brennan later admitted that he had lied under oath (with zero repercussions), when he testified to Congress that there was no collateral damage in drone targeted assassinations.
Obama was proud of his preemptive assassination program. Indeed, in lighthearted fashion he joked at the White House Correspondence Dinner about his preference for lethal drone missions, when he “warned” celebrities not to date his daughters: “But boys, don’t get any ideas. I have two words for you, ‘predator drones.’ You will never see it coming. You think I’m joking.”
Did the campuses erupt and scream “Not in my name” when their president laughed about his assassination program? After all, Obama had also admitted, “There is no doubt that civilians were killed who shouldn’t have been.” Did he then stop the targeted killings due to collateral damage—as critics now demand a cease fire from Israel?
“Genocide”
Genocide is now the most popular charge in the general damnation of Israel, a false smear aimed at calling off the Israeli response to Hamas, burrowed beneath civilians in Gaza City.
But how strange a charge! Pro-Hamas demonstrators the world over chant “From the River to the Sea,” unambiguously calling for the utter destruction of Israel and its 9 million population. Are the Hamas supporters then “genocidal?”
Is genocide the aim of Hamas that launched over 7,000 rockets into Israeli cities without warning? What is the purpose of the purportedly 120,000 rockets in the hands of Hezbollah if not to target Israeli noncombatants? Is all that a genocidal impulse?
Do Hamas and Hezbollah drop leaflets to civilians, as does Israel, to flee the area of a planned missile attack—or is that against their respective charters?
Hamas leaders in Qatar and Beirut continue to give interviews bragging about their October 7 surprise mass murdering of civilians. They even promise more such missions that likewise will be aimed at beheading, torturing, executing, incinerating, and desecrating the bodies of hundreds of Jewish civilians, perhaps again in the early morning during a holiday and a time of peace.
Is that planned continuation of mass killing genocidal? Does the amoral UN recall any other mass murdering spree when the killers beheaded infants, cooked them in ovens, and raped the dead?
Perhaps students at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and Stanford will protest the real genocide in Darfur where some half-million black African Sudanese have been slaughtered by mostly Muslim Arab Sudanese. Did the Cornell professor who claimed he was “exhilarated” on news of beheaded Jewish babies protest the slaughter of the Sudanese? Did the current campus protestors ever assemble to scream about the Islamists who slaughtered the indigenous Africans of Sudan?
Are professors at Stanford organizing to refuse all grants and donations that originate from communist China? Remember, the Chinese communist Party has never apologized for the party’s genocidal murder of some 60-80 millions of its own during the Maoist Cultural Revolution, much less its systematic efforts to eliminate the Uyghur Muslim population?
These examples could easily be expanded. But they suffice to remind us that the Middle-East and Western leftist attacks on Israel for responding to the October 7 mass murdering are neither based on any consistent moral logic nor similarly extended to other nations who really do practice apartheid, genocide, and kill without much worry about collateral damage.
So why does the world apply a special standard to Israel?
To the leftist and Islamist, Israel is guilty of being:
1) Jewish;
2) Too prosperous, secure, and free;
3) Sufficiently Western to meet the boilerplate smears of colonialist, imperialist, and blah, blah, blah.
All of the leftist arguments against Israel are rooted in anti Semitism
What does that mean? What is anti-Semitism? Define your terms.
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.” International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition of antisemitism.
https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definitions-charters/working-definition-antisemitism
The IHRA definition is well-intentioned but wordy. Anitisemitism can be defined with three simple common English words: “Antisemitism is…lying about Jews.”
These haters of Jews should be looking to their own actions, deeds, and assaults on innocent men, women, and children.. They are terrible examples of mankind gone wrong. Their pathway is full of thorns and briars, and judgment, and bad luck is coming their way. If they concentrated on love, happiness, civility, and living a productive compassionate life, they would be happier. Whose greater goal is to destroy others lives???? What a sick world.
Israel has brought immense suffering, humiliation, and oppression to the Palestinians. Victor Davis Hanson is an Israel apologist. A Nazi Jew.
May I add that the Nazis were total leftists, haters, antisemites, and secularists, they had no respect for human life, and were anti-God. How convenient to deny the creator of all life so you can murder, rob, and plunder with no consicence. The Palestinian people will never have a solution for a better life living under the leadership of rich corrupt masters who use their women and children as human shields.
They hate and kill because the Koran tells them to. Islam is not a religion, it is a death cult
Uh, do you have a dictionary? It’s a good first step to remedy one’s illiteracy. Schools these days. Yeesh..
Define your stupidity and malice.
What planet do you live on?
I favor the simple but concrete definition proposed by former Soviet refusenik Natan Sharanasky (2005). I added my own examples in brackets.
The 3D Test of Anti-Semitism:
Demonization, Double Standards, Delegitimization
demonization. When the Jewish state is being demonized; when Israel’s actions are blown out of all sensible proportion.
[And/or when Jews are portrayed as monsters, deformed creatures, literal demons, or anything less than ordinary human beings.]
double standards. When criticism of Israel is applied selectively; [for example] when Israel is singled out by the United Nations for human rights abuses while the behavior of known and major abusers, such as China, Iran, Cuba, and Syria, is ignored.
[And/or when Jews are held to behavior standards required of no other group.]
delegitimization. When Israel’s fundamental right to exist is denied – alone among all peoples in the world.
[And/or when history is rewritten and facts are denied to remove any legitimate claims by Israel to its ancestral lands.]
I don’t understand why people hate Jews so much. What’s wrong with doctors, dentists and movie directors?
And anti-Western Civilization which both the Left and Islam detest and want to destroy.
These are the same people that backeD the Nazis and for the exact same reasons.
The fact that they carry signs accusing Israel of being “Nazi” and of “genocide” is pure projection on their part, and in fact signals their own intentions toward Israelis and Jews. They also surely know that such accusations, aside from being obscene, rub salt in old wounds.
This is nothing new from the left. 40 years ago I had a college professor (a caricature of a self hating Jew) who referred to Ariel Sharon (who later foolishly made a complete and unilateral withdrawal from Gaza) as “Hermann Goering Sharon” and who made up fake quotes from David Ben Gurion and Menachem Begin purporting to praise Hitler. In a way he helped “educate” me- he immunized me effectively against the blandishments of the Left and convinced me that a large proportion of academics were talentless frauds and pathological liars.
Afrikaaner Jew defends Apartheid Israel.
Choke on it, Lisa. Y’all are the one’s supportimg the ones that supported the nazis, that even goose step and give nazi salutes. When your bbf’s display swastikas, it should be a clue, but you’restupid, on top of evil. Cover your ugly face and keep hooking for hamas.
History repeats itself, the kind of people that hate and destroy civilization have to learn the hard way and be destroyed by their own actions. People reap what they sew. Many really don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, but they pay in their losses in so many ways.
It’s reap what you sow, not sew.
who is this piece of dogsh*t named lisa hardy writing talkbacks here?
Israel is targeted because it is perceived as weak and we all know that when faced with a choice, muslims will always choose the strong horse over the weak horse. If Israel is able to capture the Hamas leadership alive, and humiliate them in public, the anti-Israel and anti-semitic ferver would go away.
fer sure, Hymie.
Your ignorant comments show that you are utterly unable to see past your baked in bias and utterly foreign to any critical thinking faculties. Victor Davis Hanson has catalogued a large number of obvious facts and invited the reader to wonder about the hypocrisy and double standards that motivates the uneducated morons who demonstrate about and criticise Israel.
I bet you wasted not one moment on actually cogitating on his wise thoughts. My suggestion would be to stop commenting and showing what a left-wing retard you obviously are!
No, this goes beyond that. Hamas has to die. There’s no point in accepting surrender from them.
The antisemitic hate will never go away because it is the basis of Islam. The only way it will go away is if Islam is eradicated.
Friom the Chief Rabbi of South Africa:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/380049
South Africa is already a vast Jew hating shithole, and it’s going down further, like Venezuela or Cuba.
That’s the OFFICIAL South Africa – ANC terrorists calling to like.
Africa is being slowly taken over by the Muslims. They are committing a genocide of Christians there (primarily in Nigeria). It is a part of their goal of taking over the world.
When Victor Davis Hanson, after factually debunking every hateful muslim/college student claim, can do no more than write “blah blah blah” I know we have reached an impasse.
We cannot dialog with these haters. They have proven they deserve a only a true warlike or incarceration response.
Lets clear the air by clearing them out of our hair once and for all.
How do you propose to do that? Round them all up and put them in gulags or something?
Why would that concern you but the rest of us concern you not at all?
And why do you respond with such concrete thinking? Feeling hateful these days?
It is YOU who have gulags on your mind and not me.
Lets see:
– changing educational practices to eliminate disinformation about Jews and other truly persecuted groups .
-Providing real consequences for heartless acts such as ripping down posters of innocent civilians held hostage.
– Confronting media bias and its participation in atrocities and slanted reporting that fosters hate .
– Stop funding terror entities such as Hamas and others and allowing their propaganda.
Thats just off the top of my head, but YOU only think of gulags!
Shame on you!
Send them back to where they came from.
You mean that antisemites are liars? Who’d’ve thunk it?
Excellent article. Shows the utter hypocrisy of the Arabs and their Western enablers.
I wish the term “hate crazy” would be come popular to describe these anti-Israel protesters. I have noticed for decades there are those who are obsessed with hating Israel 24/7 and can’t seem to have a life without it.
“moral perverts” is another useful phrase.
Ben Shapiro used it recently, and it definitely resonates when you think of the woke white and black students screaming at campus demonstrations against Israel and Jews,
or ripping posters showing israeli kids kidnapped,
or ignoring the blatantly nazi-like Hamas charter which openly talks about slaughtering Jews everywhere (in the name of allah their moon god).
moral perverts indeed!!
Those that fought in World War II realize that the Swastika represented oppression and genocide in Hitler’s Germany.
“Projection” is ESSENTIAL to leftist ideology.
Most of these Leftists, especially the college students, are really tilted toward the dim-witted. It is impossible to win an argument with a stupid person.
We have to remember these are the generations raised to consider their emotions over any factual evidence. It’s easier to emote than think and that’s why our educational institutions have succeeded in bringing up an army of empty headed, activists drones bereft of reason.
“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” (Mark Twain)
The Jews are documented as having been in Jerusalem and the surrounding area since 1000 BC under King David, 1500 years before the Muslims arrived as conquerors. The Jews have been there ever since 1000 BC and even previous to that date. What more needs to be said in defense of the right of Israel to exist?
The leftists are proving to be more racially genocidal than the fascists. The BIPOC genocide against whiteness that the Marxist overlords are planning is in full swing now against the ‘whiteness’ of the Jews.
Truth is a Judeo-Christian value, as is history. The BIPOC LGBTQ revolution is an overtly anti-Christian movement, with truth is their enemy. The movement is not based on facts, but on mantras.
Apartheid! Colonialism! DIsproportionate!
There is no truth in the claims, nothing to argue against. They already know that they are lying. They just want to send it all to hell
It’s partly about numbers; White people are a minority in the World. Many non-White people in the World already have a bias and bitterness against White people because of the past. Colonialism, imperialism and often not being treated as equals.
This gives the Elites (despite the fact that they are White themselves) a vast army of foot soldiers to accomplish their goals. Offer impoverished non-Whites a special status and free goodies in return for obedience. This works on Whites too – they will give up their own freedoms to get womb to tomb care. Dependence is an addiction.
The other part is about specifically WESTERN culture, which must be destroyed because it emphasizes individualism over collectivism and personal responsibility over egalitarianism.
SIGN THE PETITION IN SUPPORT OF HAMAS. Ooooopppppsssss!
Whether or not the motives of those opposing Israel’s response to the slaughter of 10/7 is racial or cultural, it is wrong and should be opposed if not merely ignored. Anti-semitism is stupid and ignorant and very dangerous.. We can only defeat these by education and if necessary, by killing them if they try to kill us. Trying to defend against ignorance or stupidity by apology or “clarification” is like trying to teach a pig to sing. You’ll only make it mad..
They have been brainwashed by their so-called religion (Islam). They need to be reprogrammed.
Across The Western World today we have a Useful Idiot Generation that seems to think gangs like Hamas will set them free, especially homosexual folks as i see signs stating Queers for Palestine and a video where a young boy in make up and a dress states that Hamas will liberate him while America is oppressing him… WTF ?.
islamism is the new nazism.
Excellent article
But you omitted to mention one very successful genocide, that being Tibet
The Chinese have displaced Tibetans in Tibet by transferring, by CCP assistance, thousands of Chinese into Tibet.
Tibetan culture and language is suppressed and democracy has been totally extinguished.
We don’t even know how many Tibetans have been killed or have died by ,or due to Chinese actions