Spare Us the Selective Outrage

American Greatness ^ | 26 May, 2026 | Victor Davis Hanson

[MtnClimber]

Israel is condemned for surviving a massacre while regimes guilty of actual ethnic cleansing and mass slaughter escape outrage and scrutiny.

Since October 7, we have been lectured nonstop about the supposedly singular sins of Israel.

The campuses, the left-wing media, and the new Democratic Socialist officials, both federal and state, following the cue of student activists and professors from the Middle East, have painted Israel and their Jewish supporters as Nazis, fascists, and among the worst murderers in today’s bloody world.

This is nonsensical. The medieval-style massacre of 1,200 Jews in their homes on October 7, during a time of peace, should have increased awareness of the existential dangers Israel faced. Instead, it spawned a gathering storm of antisemitism.

What Was Israel Supposed to Do?

Note that leftists and pro-Hamas students and faculty were shouting the eliminationist slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” in euphoria almost immediately in response to the news of the slaughter. Hundreds of dead Jews set off a Pavlovian spasm of glee from the Middle East to American campuses.

Indeed, during the three-week hiatus following the mass killings—well before the IDF entered Gaza on October 27—Israel and its supporters were damned in ways we have not seen for years. Even as Israel sought to negotiate a release of the 251 hostages and a surrender of all those in Hamas responsible for the massacres, the international furor at Israel only mounted. Or was it instead an ebullition of anticipation that still more slaughter of Israelis would follow?

Yet Israel’s demands were met with more defiance. Hamas, and its delusional supporters, both in the Middle East and in the West, saw October 7 not as the end of bloodletting but as the beginning of far more slaughter

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[MtnClimber]

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[SaveFerris]

(Israel is condemned for surviving a massacre while regimes guilty of actual ethnic cleansing and mass slaughter escape outrage and scrutiny.

Since October 7 (2023), we have been lectured nonstop about the supposedly singular sins of Israel.)

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[texas booster]

Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, an immigrant from Uganda, is not just a fierce critic of so-called “white neighborhoods” and one-percenter billionaires and millionaires. He also seems to loathe Israel. In that context, his supporters and would-be appointees have damned the Jewish state as an illegitimate settler-colonial enterprise. But under those very reductionist left-wing definitions, should not the Indian community in Uganda—which made up at most a wealthy 1 percent of the population—be defined as settler-colonialists (in addition to suspect rich one-percenters)?

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[rlmorel]

An excerpt from this excellent article:

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What Would America Have Done?

Alternatively, consider this hypothetical: the United States is roughly 34 times larger than Israel, with roughly 340 million to Israel’s 10 million citizens. Apply that asymmetrical magnitude to a thought experiment about how Americans would react to a proportional slaughter of their own.

Suppose that some 200,000 Sinaloa cartel killers (34 times the size of Hamas’s 6,000) swarmed across the southern border. They then began massacring 40,000 American civilians (34 times the Israeli number of 1,200 dead)—as well as torturing, dismembering, raping, and beheading. And then they were followed by thousands of tag-along civilians eager for loot and torture themselves.

Further imagine that the killers returned south across the border with 8,500 American hostages (34 times the 251 Israeli hostages). Once there, they then descended into a vast multibillion-dollar labyrinth of cartel tunnels beneath the cities of Sinaloa, protected by supportive and sympathetic citizens. Their tunnel entries and exits would be built beneath hospitals, schools, and churches.

So what exactly would the U.S. do if neither the Mexican government nor the cartel planners agreed to hand over the hostages and surrender the killers?

Take our case to the UN?

Ask NATO member Spain to chair talks?

Go to Geneva to negotiate with El Chapo and his henchmen?

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What a remarkably cogent and understandable way to frame it.

[Liz]

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a Ugandan immigrant, his supporters and
other suck-ups have damned Israel as an “illegitimate settler-colonial enterprise.”

So should not the Indian community in Uganda—made up of a wealthy
1 percent of the population—be defined as settler-colonialists as well?

[Uncle Miltie]

To the FReeper Allahu Akhbar Chorus:

“ In short, the tell-tale sign of antisemites is not necessarily opposition to Israel.

It is instead an endless fixation on the supposed “crimes” of Israel, when far greater documented horrors elsewhere never merit a word from them.”

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. BUMP!

[Tell It Right]

Thanks for the VDH ping!

Perhaps VDH's best work is like in this article: summarizing contemporary events and reminding us what many of us have forgotten in the past few years. It's easy to get so caught up in whatever today's "topic" is supposed to be that we forget the lessons to learn from even the recent past.

[MikelTackNailer]

I was writing nearly the same article as a response to one of FR’s not-so-secret anti-Semites and stopped because it wasn’t coming out well. Thank the Lord we have Dr. Hanson to spread (un)common sense through the mass media, giving voice to the righteously indignant and pointing out where emperors wear no clothes.

[MikelTackNailer]

I wrote what was reflected in his first few paragraphs. His knowledge of international atrocities far surpasses my meager grasp of history.

[KingofZion]

Yes this is my standard reply to all who critique Israel.

Certainly Israel is not perfect. But if you are not equally expressing condemnation of Iran, China, Russia, Myanmar, Somalia and North Korea then I have no time for you.

Not to mention the Muslim slavers who have been enslaving Africans since before the first UK/US ships arrived and who continue to do so until this day. And the native americans who murdered and enslaved each other in Latin America.

[MurrietaMadman]

This is nonsensical. The medieval-style massacre of 1,200 Jews in their homes on October 7

I'll say it's nonsensical. The reports I read said it was a Rave that was raided. An outdoor gathering. Now their changing it to home invasions? Oy! What's next? Zero's start getting added to the 1,200?

[MtnClimber]

One of the targets was the rave concert, but there were many more. Here is a map from the BBC:

[MurrietaMadman]

Thank you for the update. I never heard about multiple locations.