Mick Hartley

Susan Linfield in Quillette – The Return of the Progressive Atrocity:

The extraordinary nature of the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that have swept through the capitals of the West—demonstrations that began before Israel dropped a single bomb on Gaza—has, perhaps, not been fully appreciated. Horrific massacres of unarmed civilians are, unfortunately, taking place right now in South Sudan, Congo, Ethiopia, Syria, and Darfur. Unforgivably, the so-called international community usually ignores them. But none inspires cries of esteem for the perpetrators and acclaim for their crimes. And nowhere are the victims—defenseless civilians, including children and their mothers—blamed for being murdered. That is what is happening now. The deadliest single day in the post-Holocaust history of the Jewish people has been greeted in some quarters with joy and—to be blunt—an entirely undisguised hatred of Jews….

The Western Left’s response to October 7th will, I believe, be viewed as a moment of moral corruption on a par with the defense of Stalin’s purges, Czechoslovakia’s antisemitic show trials of 1952, the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and Poland’s antisemitic expulsions of 1968, along with the denial of the Khmer Rouge genocide (see under: Chomsky, Noam) and the adulation of China’s vicious Cultural Revolution.

What I find particularly despicable is the constant beating of the "genocide" drum. Yes, people are getting killed in Gaza, and it's terrible – but it's not genocide and doesn't come even close to genocide. And these people who chant it so freely and stick it on their banners – do they really believe it? I don't think so. They do it because it's against the Jews, the victims of the worst genocide in (modern) history. They do it because it gives them a particulat thrill to talk about Jews committing genocide: to say that Israelis are the new Nazis. And that thrill is only down to a hatred of Jews.