There were no protests and marches against the mass murders committed by Hamas last week, certainly not in the UK where sections of the crowd in London yesterday shouted “Fuck Keir Starmer” and in Sydney where a significant minority chanted “Fuck the Jews” and “Gas the Jews”. It’s almost as if when it comes to racism Jews don’t count.
The Hamas terrorists who murdered 260 innocent young people at the Nova music festival were condemned by many politicians and news outlets, grudgingly by some on the hard left whose allegiances were elsewhere, but bar a number of minutes of silence at sports events, the streets were largely empty. Indeed, the only reference to the paragliders who launched the initial attacks at the Nova festival was at London’s rally yesterday where various ghouls attached pictures of paragliders to their clothing.
It is clear that the motivation of most people who attended the pro Palestine rallies yesterday was support for the oppressed Palestinians, but what strange timing. It was barely a week ago when Hamas terrorists – stop calling them militants and gunmen, by the way – raped and killed people in cold blood, including babies and old people and then displayed their mutilated corpses on flatbed trucks to baying crowds. Whatever the rights and wrongs of the Israeli government – and there are a lot of wrongs when it comes to Benjamin Netanyahu – nothing could justify the slaughter of innocents. I repeat that most people who attended pro Palestinian rallies probably didn’t support the actions of Hamas but there has been far less condemnation than there should have been.
I wonder what we, as a human race, have become. What happened in Israeli seemed to be treated as some kind of normal and the only people to take to the streets were those who purport to be pro Palestinian, as if the rest of us who support Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself somehow are anti-Palestinian. That’s clearly not the case and indeed we call for a peaceful solution in the Middle East as much as anyone else out there marching with flags, probably more so than those who chant “Gas the Jews”.
Surely we know by now where this can all end. After all, Hamas’s attack against Jews was the worst since the Holocaust and while the Germans are among the good guys these days, the islamic maniacs of nuclear armed Iran, among others, are in the other corner.
This ongoing and possibly escalating conflict is bound to affect us all, whether economically or militarily or even both, in far more concerning ways than the Russian fascist invasion of Ukraine. We have a duty to support the very existence of Israel and her ability to defend herself, but also to work for a long term peaceful settlement which today feels like it could be a million years away, always assuming the world as it is lasts that long.
