Mick Hartley

Howard Jacobson in the JC – Jews don’t need the cult of woke – it doesn’t care for us:

Only think of the sorrow for Israelis and rage against Hamas we expected after October 7. Weren’t the woke so many snowflakes who fainted if someone made a cutting remark in their presence and didn’t dare go to the theatre for fear someone might die on stage? How would they survive the images of Hamas murdering babies? Well, here’s a surprise. They not only loved them, they called for more….

And what about those trembling stars of woke who need trigger warnings to protect them against the re-awakening of bad memories – how were they ever going to cope with Hamas evoking reminiscences of Kishniev and Odessa, not to mention Hebron? Where? Hebron – 1929. Never heard of it? No matter. Because yet again, they coped with remarkable buoyancy. Say trigger and they will love whoever pulls it. So long as the target is a Jew….

And so, at its first big test, woke collapses like a pack of cards. After all its protestations of refined alertness to cruelty, prejudice and bullying, it has all along been in thrall to a dogma that hierarchizes pain. Much like the Radical Left of which it is a scion, it doesn’t care how many people die so long as one small idea lives.