Why ‘Be Kind’ Liberals Have Ended up Cheering on Islamist Terrorists
According to Jake Wallis Simons, editor of the Jewish Chronicle, the ‘Israelophobia’ behind the woke Left’s enthusiasm for Hamas is just the latest manifestation of the world’s oldest hatred. He’s fleshed out this argument in the Telegraph.
In my position as editor of the Jewish Chronicle, I have been shown footage and images that others have not. One clip in particular, filmed by a terrorist with one hand while he perpetrated his crime with the other, has since been flashing into my mind unbidden. He was using a rod to put out the eyes of a corpse.
These are the acts being celebrated by liberals in Britain.
How did we get here? How did society reach a moment where the more progressive you are, the more likely you are to support such savagery? This demands an urgent cultural reckoning.
Blaming Jews for their own massacre, and revelling in it, is the most naked example of a corruption that has been quietly contaminating the bloodstream of the body politic for decades.
Jews are always the first victims of human darkness, but the rot goes much further. It spreads downwards from the progressive elites that sit at the top of our institutions – universities and the civil service, broadcasters and advertising agencies, theatres and museums – from where they cascade their creed into society.
These “progressive activists”, as the More in Common thinktank has labelled them, comprise about 13% of the population in Britain. But they exert disproportionate power, rendering many common and reasonable beliefs taboo.
Their dogma can be seen in pronouns on the lanyards of NHS officials, the transgender flag outside the Royal Opera House, the sea of Palestinian flags at Labour conference under Corbyn and countless other places.
Their worldview includes fixed positions on race, gender, decolonisation, sexuality, slavery and the Palestinians. Although much of this causes real harm, particularly to teenagers and Jews, these ideological positions are signifiers of social status rather than authentic moral positions. They are luxury beliefs.
It is striking how closely this group adheres to these orthodoxies. Because it is a question of identity, it is almost unthinkable for devotees to hold some of those views but not others, and very hard for them to change their minds. Last week, Jeremy Corbyn appeared unable to revise his vision of Hamas as “friends” even in the aftermath of the massacre.
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Yawn yawn yawn
Sounds like you need an early night.
. Sounds like you’ve been had… Again…
It is more fixed minds than fixed positions. They are simply unable to concede that others have equally valid views based on data that they are not prepared to consider, let alone try to understand.
It is known as bigotry.
I would also add climate to your list of their zones of intolerance.
Nope.
As I’ve said on these pages before, you can’t understand political correctness, the pressure on Christians or the hatred of Israel unless you understand this is a spiritual war.
PC for example isn’t a socialist construct, but the planned eradication of Judeo-Christian culture from society. Islamists want to eradicate Israel, kill every Jew.
Good v evil.
Now would be a good time to decide which side you’re on folks.
I’ve read the end of the Book and know how things end, but there’s trouble first.
There are many that think all you need to do is to ‘give peace a chance’, without any awareness that there are enough people out there that are far from reasonable and singing John Lennon, or handing out flowers will not provide any protection.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing; and most good men nowadays can be relied upon to do precisely that.”
Edmund Burke
“It is always the simplest ideas that lead to the greatest consequences. My idea, in it’s entirety is that if vile people unite and constitute a force then decent people are obliged to do the same; just that.”
Leo Tolstoy from the opening to the Russian film ‘War and Peace’
“Those who “abjure” violence can only do so because others are committing violence on their behalf.”
George Orwell
“Not only will we have to repent for the sins of bad people; but we also will have to repent for the appalling silence of good people.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
Thomas Sowell
I think Israel is responsible for the attack on itself by Palestinians in the very broad sense that there is a long conflict between Israel and Palestinians and all the actions of the past by both sides have led to this.
At the same time I am not anti-semitic, far from it, and I don’t support any wokel ideology.
This constant pressure to label anyone who doesn’t jump on the Hamas are monsters band wagon as anti-semitic or condoning brutal murders is tiresome.
Put it this way, the leaders of Hamas have much less blood on their hands than Bush or Blair. Which doesn’t excuse them. But where are the Bush and Blair are monsters and anyone who defends them is defending the killing of babies articles?
It’s impossible to appease Hamas, in the same way that it was impossible to appease Hitler.
Hamas’ actions were a provocation designed to provoke Israel to attack Gaza. Israel can do no other than try to eliminate Hamas.
Israel is going nowhere, they will always fight back. 2 million Palestinians live in Israel. Palestinians could choose to live in peace.
No. It’s impossible to appease Hamas as much as it is impossible to appease Netanyahu who has kept conflict in the region alive for his own interests (as have Hamas, who Netanyahu encouraged to keep alive the divide). Right now, Israelis are spilling out onto the streets of Tel Aviv shouting ‘Bibi is a murderer’ and calling for him to be jailed. They know they were purposely left defenseless. And how did Hamas have a list of top generals, and all their addresses? The same generals calling for his replacement? This was in part to the IDF and pilots having been stood down because Bibi was overturning the judicial system, strangling the Supreme court to allow him to stay in power, raze the Al-Aqsa mosque and take Gaza. He is so unpopular, he was unable to form a government. And then…..voila!. Like Hamas he is a fundamentalist nut job. All those in Israel and all those in Gaza will be better off if both leaderships are removed. For all time.
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No.
Do you think Palestinians have been well treated by Israel, and if not do you think that the Palestinians have no one to blame for it but themselves?
Some 250,000 Palestinians were expelled from Palestine in the late 40’s. About 900,000 Jews were expelled from Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Iran & Egypt at the same time. The Jews moved to Israel because Israel welcomed them. Many Palestinians went into refugee camps & have stayed ever since burnishing their resentment.
Yeah, many people think their set of facts show who is right and who is wrong in the Israel Palestine issue. That’s a major part of the problem
Welcome to the polarisation resulting from long-term starvation of balanced information and freedom to question the narrative.
It’s an interesting tactic conflating Woke with support for Palestinians but is this really suggesting that woke/transgender ideology is disproportionately causing harm to the Jewish community? Interesting then that Tourist Israel promotes Tel Aviv as the Ultimate LGBTQ destination. The Jewish Chronicle seems to have similar articles fully supportive of LGBT you might see in mainstream media.
It also seems odd that DS has had multiple articles showing persecution of Christians over their beliefs in relation to same-sex relationships and gender but I don’t recollect any on Jews in a similar situation.
To any downvoters: if you have information that disagrees with this or proves otherwise, please post links.
To the downvoters: thanks, that was really informative and curiously similar to Woke crusaders who can only show disapproval.
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If Hamas care about their people so much why aren’t they surrendering, laying down their arms and releasing the hostages? Why bring more bloodshed and death on the civilians? Well they’re bloodthirsty jihadis, they don’t do compassion like they don’t do surrender like they don’t do tolerance or living in peace. Their behaviour demonstrates perfectly what they think of the people of ‘Palestine’. Maybe they want to die for their cause but they don’t represent every other soul in that place. An interesting piece on the history of ‘Palestinians’; “But,” says the leftist that wants to destroy Israel, “the people of the region consider themselves Palestinian, and we need to act according to their self-identification based on the last few decades.” So when confronted by the history that “Palestine” and “Palestinians” are made up, the response is that self-identification is the real determiner. This is beyond absurd, as we can see with a simple analogy. We are currently being confronted with a media, supported by the same Marxist agenda, that claims that if a man self-identifies as a woman, he should be treated as a woman in all ways. Anyone with common sense realizes this is ridiculous. But as this… Read more »
Really……I can’t believe you are serious…this is a terrible, racist, genocidal article….
so the roughly 14 million people in the world who identify as Palestinian are just making it up, Or don’t exist, … According to the Rabbi?
In the 12th Century BC The ‘Philistines’ as the Greeks called them were already living in the area…maybe he missed that bit?
I’m assuming that Rabbi Barclay, who says they don’t exist, assumes that in that case they can’t have any legal rights on the land where they live either..which is handy…
…I think a funny little German fella with a small moustache had a similar idea about some people who he despised and thought shouldn’t exist….now what was it..don’t tell me..it’ll come to me…..
FGS Gums, it’s only an article. I’m not saying I agree with it, I just found it interesting, and I’m not expecting everyone else to either, but is that really the most shocking thing you’ve ever read on this site?? Cripes. Hope you’ve had a chance to calm yourself these last few hours. Gordon Bennett…!
Interesting so what does he call people who are cheering on the fact that Israel has killed at least 2,215 people in Gaza over the past week, including 724 children and 458 women
– 8,714 people have been wounded in Gaza
– In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have killed 54 people and wounded 1,100 others..
….are they ‘not kind’ non-Librerals?
Didn’t he once say that he would always side with Israel against the UK?
I view both Muslims and Jews as hostile aliens whose presence in the UK is not in our interests
In response to 1200 Israelis being killed by Hamas terrorists, the Israelian army completely peacefully and kindly killed 1500 inhabitants of the Gaza strip with a mixture of air strikes and shelling. At least, these were the CNN-numbers of yesterday. And they’ve reportedly also cut off the water supply as peaceful and kind measure of self-defence against 2,047,000 civilians who didn’t attack them.
The corpses of those killed by the Israelis are unmarked and have smiles on their faces.
Toby has a bee in his bonnet about so-called anti-semiticism.
People are NOT anti-semites.
They do not dislike Jews for what they “are”.
They dislike Zionists for what they “do” against the indigenous Palestinians.
Yep the founder of The Free Speech Union, doesn’t actually like free speech….
I don’t see any article critiquing the police search for two people who have pinned paraglider photos on their backs so they can be persecuted for their (distasteful) FREE SPEECH ACT.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12632899/Hunt-two-pro-Palestine-protesters-taped-images-paragliding-Hamas-terrorists-backs-Police-release-image-one-women-London-march-launch-probe-public-order-offence.html
Im a member but this silence on police manhunt doesn’t sit well with me.
Anything to say about this Toby?
So downvotes. You guys think it’s ok to be arrested for your opinions?
Unfortunately iam afraid they do AYM..
I have started a discussion on the DS Forum about free speech here:
Should there any limits to free speech and if so what should they be? Is censorship ever justified?
You will only be able to see if after it has passed moderation so it is invisible to you at the moment as I have only just created it.
Well I will look out for it should it pass the 404.
Whats going on here is very concerning.
Of course much of the nonsense is down to people who are downtickijg with no subscription as they are too cheap to pay for a posting or just too lame to raise their voices…cowards and cheap skates.
LOL. Good point.
FFS someone downvoted you for that!
Ye Gods. Cancel culture at work.
Who are these
peoplepimples?Lobs from the peanut gallery.
The ideological cheap seats place holders with middling IQ and scurrying back into their emotional retroactive cave dwellings.
PMSL! Yeah you’ll have to get used to that around here. The worst thing you can do is give them what they want, a reaction. 🙂
You are of course right Mogwai. I like that you are out there ready to put yourself on the chopping block.
I worry you may be getting dragged away by this emotional wave though because of, perhaps, earlier viewpoints. Earlier as in BC, Before Covid, BU, before Ukraine….
It would be great if we could get you back to base.
This is getting tiresome. Toby, I think you are, perhaps single handedly, considering what articles you have chosen to highlight, destroying this site.
Ditto previous comment:
William Cobbett and the Mufti of Jerusalem. 19th century German nationalism and al Qa’ida. Yuri Andropov and Facebook. ISIS and critical race theory. Whoopi Goldberg and Shi’ite Islamism. The Black Hundreds and the French Communist party. Malcolm X and the Ku Klux Klan.
Are there any two individuals, movements or schools of thought which this man is not capable of conflating under the heading of anti-semitism, as if it was an “ism” to which they all subscribed? And what is the relevance of any of these things to his declared topic, which is why the Guardianista left has turned against Israel over the years?
In a comment on this site a couple of days ago I remarked on the Zionist predilection for pseudo-intellectual propaganda. It has not been long in making a reappearance.
Thank you Philip.
Quoting one side of an argument is not good journalism, Toby. That’s just propaganda.
‘Blaming Jews for their own massacre, and reveling in it’. No Jake Wallis Simmons, that was not what the marches were about. Fanning the flames of the conflict is not going to help. What’s needed now are cool heads. Not more division. Carpet-bombing Gazan neighbourhoods is not going to help the region heal.
You Wanted Diversity & inclusivity with ZERO assimilation& integration!! Thais is it NOW teh Liberals who are nowadays nothing but wannabe Marxists are joining in