Mick Hartley

From the JC – How the West’s literary elite distorted language to justify their bizarre embrace of jihadism:

We live in an age in which the words “genocide”, “apartheid”, “colonisation” and “ethnic cleansing” are swiftly losing all meaning and, as the recently sacked adviser to the UN Alice Wairimu Nderitu has noted – after she failed to support repeated claims that Israel was guilty of such atrocities – this poses serious consequences for real victims.

Too many within the literary and arts scenes of both this country, and across the West, are actively leading an assault against language, and by extension against humanity, by perpetuating the lies and false narratives that are the source of the tragic conflict in the Middle East. Moreover, they are “proud” to be doing so.

Since October 7, 2023, in a rush to be relevant and radical (condemning terror and, especially, sexual torture seems passé), a stampede of publishers, presses, cultural institutions and arts organisations have feted and platformed so-called Palestinian writers, artists and film-makers – very often with public funding….

These writers and artists are using public money in the free West – using their “privilege”, in other words – to lobby for the oppressors of some of the most oppressive places on Earth: Gaza under Hamas, Lebanon under Hezbollah, Yemen under the Houthis (actively trying to bring back slavery) and Iran under its Islamic regime. Unlike actual Gazans, such as Mosab Hassan Yousef, Taysir Abu Saada, Yaron Avraham, Dor Shachar and Hamza Howidy, who work tirelessly to bring the world’s attention to Hamas’s cruelties, having each been imprisoned and tortured, for example for participating in the We Want to Live protests to which no one in the West paid any attention, Western writers and organisations choose not to campaign for true freedom and a sustainable peace for Palestinian-Arabs.

Instead they repeat and disseminate the lies, hatred and historical misinformation that keep Palestinians locked in perpetual struggle against their Israeli neighbours….

It is perhaps one of the biggest lies of all to pretend that Gaza is a state whose inhabitants would live “free” and prosperous lives if it weren’t for Israel and America or, simply, “the West”. Gazan women have no rights. Gay people have no rights. Non-Muslims have no rights. There are no Jews allowed – at all – in the land; not even Jewish graves. It is Judenrein. The level of inhuman hatred inculcated in the Gazan population against Jews was on full display on October 7 and in the days following, when even ordinary civilians were spitting on and beating Israeli hostages.

And is it any wonder, when their education system, including in Unrwa schools, teaches hatred from the day Gazans are born?

The fact that this was written by "a UK university professor who wishes to remain anonymous" tells its own story.