Posted on 09/07/2024 3:51:49 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Next month, October 7, will mark the first anniversary of Hamas' surprise attack on Israel, in which over 1,100 Israelis -- mostly civilians -- were ruthlessly murdered in their homes.
The chaotic political fallout that ensued afterward would involve the occupation of college campuses across the United States by protesters denouncing Zionism and colonialism, as well as the declaration that Israel was somehow an "apartheid state," despite that definitionally not being the case.
Any mourning for the victims of Hamas' attack was quickly drowned out by extremist American college students some 6,000 miles away who arrogantly believe a handful of social theories aimed at "decolonization" can adequately explain and remedy a conflict that has been raging for over a century. As of the time of this writing, protests have resumed at Columbia University following the beginning of the fall semester, demanding that the university divest from Israel due to its ongoing war efforts in Gaza.
Following the attack, social media feeds were quickly inundated with Instagram infographic posts from pro-Palestine propaganda accounts that deliberately oversimplified and omitted factual information crucial for contextualizing the conflict. This of course prompted the vast majority of the conservative intelligentsia to go full "debate bro" on the subject, resulting in long, winding debates about who first inhabited the region we now call Israel and Palestine, who attacked first, various contested definitions of the word "genocide," and so on.
The mainstream conservative effort to counter the activist rhetoric, however -- no matter how rigorous or well-informed -- was futile. Despite both sides' adamant referrals to the "history" of the conflict, very little attention was paid, beyond merely in passing, to the ideological and theoretical underpinnings of the pro-Palestine side, which, upon further examination, helps to uncover the political pathology of left-wing anti-colonial activism.
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The left instinctively sides with evil.
The Left divides the world into Oppressors and Oppressed, with the former inherently evil, and the latter inherently admirable and thus excusable for any violence they do against the Oppressors.
As he says, there’s no point in arguing with them about details.
I just say I would rather live next to an Israeli than a Muslim, and that the widespread indifference of the world towards what Israel is doing in Gaza is because most people feel likewise (although being hesitant to openly say so in the current cancel culture)
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The left not only sides instinctively with evil, it actively invents and promotes evil. The Soviet KGB invented the false fakestinian “narrative,” essentially creating them as a “national liberation movement” — as the soviets were doing all around the world as part of their larger Cold War strategy. The more disruptive, dangerous, and yes, depraved or evil the better from the communist point of view. As it causes the west the most damage
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