Lately I've been starting to think that the liberal West's deep, mindless and reflexive hatred of Israel is downstream of the new sacred morality and sacred crusade of the post-Christian post-Civil Rights era, meaning more or less white guilt and white saviorism.
White guilt is the one shared trait of all Western liberals, esp those in positions of authority (or aspiring to them) in culture, media, and especially academia. If you don't believe in your bones in the moral urgency of "centering the marginalized" and the rectification of historical injustice, you will either be expelled from these circles or never want to endure them in the first place. All of DEI, for instance, is rooted in white guilt and saviorism, and criticizing POCs in these areas is simply bad etiquette that all good people know to avoid—they are sacred victims, meant to be worshipped not questioned.
So when the aspiring white savior in our age of performative moralism comes to global politics, what's the most bang for the buck? There is nothing here to be gained by denouncing Iran or Qatar or Sudan or any Muslims or black/brown people killing each other, because as there are no white people involved, the West gets quickly bored and confused and prefers to look away. Who are we to judge!? Different cultures have different ways of handling disputes etc.
But when we get to Israel, we find the perfect stage for the ambitious yet gullible and anxious Westerner to perform their virtue and run with the cool kids who imagine themselves on the Right Side of History™. On one side of this endless conflict is a rich, powerful country created by European exiles who have a very strong military and aren't afraid to use it; and on the other side are the poor brown and oppressed 4th-generation refugees who were "kicked off their land" and who just want Justice, Equality, a state, and Amazon Prime and Pornhub—just like the rest of us. And this inability to imagine people having different beliefs and desires (Western liberals imagine themselves residing at both the apex of civilization and of morality), leads to a second, much more dangerous, mistaken assumption: that the Jews of Israel must be terrible butchers, why else would the Palestinians raise their kids to be martyrs and aspire to blowing themselves up on buses and in restaurants!? As there can't possibly be anything deficient in the culture of the poor brown and marginalized (even thinking this is coded as "racist"), thus the only possible answer is Jewish evil. The Palestinians can't help themselves—the Jewish devil made them do it!
The West has taken the Jewish scapegoat out of storage and now hopes to use it to make itself and its rulers appear as compassionate saviors who just love the marginalized and all it takes is vilifying a bunch of Jews—again—which comes pretty easily to most people.
Not a good analogy to compare the rightful and necessary abolition of slavery which needed to be ended to the Jew hating terrorist supporters who seek to destroy capitalism and Western civilisation along with Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. And just the record, the British ended slavers before America dead because they realised how vile it was. Not a good example at all.
Wait, are you saying that the anger and activism of abolitionists regarding slavery is like the moral panic today against Israel/Jews? Please tell me I misread this, because I believe that slavery is evil and fighting a war to abolish it was moral and justified. This bears no resemblance to today’s agitation against the Jewish state.
Ditto what you said. My feelings exactly. There is no comparison of the Jew hating jihadi cult of death to the abolitionists who fought to end the evils of slavery.
@Joshua, there are some golden nuggets here, but as it is always said, less is more. Personally I would leave the slavery issue out of the discussion.
Dr Mudar Zachran speaking at the EU in 2018 should be your ‘cause célèbre’ here. He is presenting a compelling case of where the West has gone wrong.
The West’s obsession with the palestinian cause and the West’s liberal luvvies being tolerant to all, will be its downfall.
Numb head politicians have allowed the wonder of western democracy to facilitate an influx of those whose backgrounds and beliefs are ‘at odds’ with western values.
Therein lies the collapse of much of Western Europe in years to come.
Doctor Zahar better watch out for his safety. He has become an unbeliever in the foundational Islamic code of antisemitism. In fact, the code energetically incorporates anti Christianism or whatever it is called. I am reading David Nirenberg’s volume “Anti-Judaism” 2014. It is a brilliant and scholarly look at a continuous thread through history. As the newest Abrahamian religion, Islam has had the task of violently discrediting the prior versions of this monotheism. And it has done it since the 600’s CE. What surprises is the amnesia for history that accompanies the support for radical Islamic terrorism today, moreso, the participation of Christians and Jews as acolytes to their own demise.
My guess is that your historical analogy is more hurtful than helpful. Do today’s antizionist activists more closely resemble mid-19th Century antebellum northern abolitionists or southern secessionists? In some ways both, but if you had to pick one then the former since their goal is destructive rather than separatist, and if so then the analogy compares Israel to the morally indefensible peculiar institution. Left-wing ideology loves just such facile analogies which they can plug into their theoretical interlinked flawed syllogisms; let’s try not to assist them.
Quoting the article, this is the heart of our problem today ,the bottom of the bottomless abyss:
"mass delusion, one that has inverted the moral order and turned parts of the world upside down"
The inversion of the moral order means no less than Humanity being on its regressive way to reintegrate its nature with the beasts. Wherever anyone thinks the moral order comes from - human truly benevolent nature, group convenience, God's law or the Enlightenment- , based on simple generic divisions of right and wrong, in spite of societal or religious differences, we must conclude today that Orwell's inversion of practically everything in " 1984" is unquestionably demonstrated in the moral arena.
Good is evil, slaughter is good, truthfulness is deception, and so on, rendering the aptly termed " mass delusion" or " collective madness" no less perverse as when Nazis stirred most of the German people, who tacitly or openly celebrated the planned annihilation of Europe's Jewry. And much of Europe sympathized with that madness.
Why this full rejection of the most basic moral code? Is this supposed to drive Natural Selection to an Übermensch race of barbarians? Are the Nazi logic being celebrated and the Islamic Nazi theological and historical alliance making a comeback? Is de-evolution the deep aim of an over-civilised mob?
Is this narcissism, the individual's self-glorification, having lost true compassion and only acting the part?
Is this an indication that as a group- and we humans crave groups- we are no different from massive coordinated instinctual movements of animals? Schools of fish, flocks of birds, buffalo....?
One day I looked out into my backyard and the entire area was black. Within a split second, a huge wave of black birds flew in a perfectly curved formation. How do they do it?
People act the same. There is a switch and connected reactive antennae whose collective instant cognition bypasses logic. The birds don't have logic. Neither do those marching humans yelling the idiotic messages.
I assume, and perhaps some polling or stats might come handy, that the " silent majority" in the West does not condone the madness, and eventually will burst in anger at the sight of their societies on the way to destruction and the erasure of their culture.
I don't see a peaceful solution. Eventually, there will be war.
Excellent column. Well written as usual. You have a great command of the language and your points are presented clearly. I can’t tell how you feel about the possibility of acceptance by the global community of the truth, but I wouldn’t want to be hanging by my thumbs waiting for that acceptance.
This is a good example of collective narcissism typical of Jews. Jews are categorically incapable of doing anything bad as a group. This is true of literally no other ethnic group except (oddly enough) the one ethnic group that is arguably the most hated in human history. Of course, everything in this article is bullshit. Or twisted into bullshit. Just an astonishing inability to look at one’s people with even the least pretense of objectivity. I get it. Ethnocentrism exists. Some groups (like Jews and other middle eastern peoples) are more ethnocentric than others (like northwestern Europeans). But come the fuck on.
You never read the Hebrew Bible? Israel is constantly berating itself for every conceivable moral misconduct, always blaming itself for every brutal invasion curtesy of colonisers and imperialists of every stripe, and the Prophets, even as they also express hope, pile endless vituperation upon their kin.
How can you be so ignorant in your Jew-hatred? At least know something.
Other anti-semites , more intelligent than you are , at least have used Israel’s own self-accusations to justify their murderous hatred. Just look at the horrifying history of the Christian persecution of Jews.
The people of Israel, the children of Israel, the Jews, also referred to as Jacob, that's ISRAEL. In the past, as is recorded in the Bible, there was a Kingdom of Israel. The Assyrians conquered it and ten tribes were lost. The Tribes are called the tribes of Israel. Israel is as old as when Abraham immigrated from Mesopotamia, about 2,000 BC. Today, it is ALSO the State of Israel. My advise:
See a shrink.
Stop drinking.
Read the Hebrew Bible. Even in the Christian Bible Israel is mentioned.
Stop writing and showing what an unworthy lowlife you are.
'The Battle of Great Apes, as they compete for Dominance and for the top spot!' .... Darwin understood this very well. China's Mao called the battle for Dominance between Nations 'The Battle of Chauvinism'. This competition, to be better than the rest, produces the best (and the worst!) of the World's culture and production, and is as alive today as this ever was. It is called Natural Selection. In today's iteration of this, Idea-Space, where all Human production starts at the desk top and the drawing-board, this is where the battles now take place. To be the Best!
Lately I've been starting to think that the liberal West's deep, mindless and reflexive hatred of Israel is downstream of the new sacred morality and sacred crusade of the post-Christian post-Civil Rights era, meaning more or less white guilt and white saviorism.
White guilt is the one shared trait of all Western liberals, esp those in positions of authority (or aspiring to them) in culture, media, and especially academia. If you don't believe in your bones in the moral urgency of "centering the marginalized" and the rectification of historical injustice, you will either be expelled from these circles or never want to endure them in the first place. All of DEI, for instance, is rooted in white guilt and saviorism, and criticizing POCs in these areas is simply bad etiquette that all good people know to avoid—they are sacred victims, meant to be worshipped not questioned.
So when the aspiring white savior in our age of performative moralism comes to global politics, what's the most bang for the buck? There is nothing here to be gained by denouncing Iran or Qatar or Sudan or any Muslims or black/brown people killing each other, because as there are no white people involved, the West gets quickly bored and confused and prefers to look away. Who are we to judge!? Different cultures have different ways of handling disputes etc.
But when we get to Israel, we find the perfect stage for the ambitious yet gullible and anxious Westerner to perform their virtue and run with the cool kids who imagine themselves on the Right Side of History™. On one side of this endless conflict is a rich, powerful country created by European exiles who have a very strong military and aren't afraid to use it; and on the other side are the poor brown and oppressed 4th-generation refugees who were "kicked off their land" and who just want Justice, Equality, a state, and Amazon Prime and Pornhub—just like the rest of us. And this inability to imagine people having different beliefs and desires (Western liberals imagine themselves residing at both the apex of civilization and of morality), leads to a second, much more dangerous, mistaken assumption: that the Jews of Israel must be terrible butchers, why else would the Palestinians raise their kids to be martyrs and aspire to blowing themselves up on buses and in restaurants!? As there can't possibly be anything deficient in the culture of the poor brown and marginalized (even thinking this is coded as "racist"), thus the only possible answer is Jewish evil. The Palestinians can't help themselves—the Jewish devil made them do it!
The West has taken the Jewish scapegoat out of storage and now hopes to use it to make itself and its rulers appear as compassionate saviors who just love the marginalized and all it takes is vilifying a bunch of Jews—again—which comes pretty easily to most people.
Hope this makes sense.
Not a good analogy to compare the rightful and necessary abolition of slavery which needed to be ended to the Jew hating terrorist supporters who seek to destroy capitalism and Western civilisation along with Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East. And just the record, the British ended slavers before America dead because they realised how vile it was. Not a good example at all.
Wait, are you saying that the anger and activism of abolitionists regarding slavery is like the moral panic today against Israel/Jews? Please tell me I misread this, because I believe that slavery is evil and fighting a war to abolish it was moral and justified. This bears no resemblance to today’s agitation against the Jewish state.
Of course slavery is evil. I didn’t read that as Hoffman’s intention to support the anti-abolitionists.
Ditto what you said. My feelings exactly. There is no comparison of the Jew hating jihadi cult of death to the abolitionists who fought to end the evils of slavery.
@Joshua, there are some golden nuggets here, but as it is always said, less is more. Personally I would leave the slavery issue out of the discussion.
Dr Mudar Zachran speaking at the EU in 2018 should be your ‘cause célèbre’ here. He is presenting a compelling case of where the West has gone wrong.
The West’s obsession with the palestinian cause and the West’s liberal luvvies being tolerant to all, will be its downfall.
Numb head politicians have allowed the wonder of western democracy to facilitate an influx of those whose backgrounds and beliefs are ‘at odds’ with western values.
Therein lies the collapse of much of Western Europe in years to come.
Doctor Zahar better watch out for his safety. He has become an unbeliever in the foundational Islamic code of antisemitism. In fact, the code energetically incorporates anti Christianism or whatever it is called. I am reading David Nirenberg’s volume “Anti-Judaism” 2014. It is a brilliant and scholarly look at a continuous thread through history. As the newest Abrahamian religion, Islam has had the task of violently discrediting the prior versions of this monotheism. And it has done it since the 600’s CE. What surprises is the amnesia for history that accompanies the support for radical Islamic terrorism today, moreso, the participation of Christians and Jews as acolytes to their own demise.
My guess is that your historical analogy is more hurtful than helpful. Do today’s antizionist activists more closely resemble mid-19th Century antebellum northern abolitionists or southern secessionists? In some ways both, but if you had to pick one then the former since their goal is destructive rather than separatist, and if so then the analogy compares Israel to the morally indefensible peculiar institution. Left-wing ideology loves just such facile analogies which they can plug into their theoretical interlinked flawed syllogisms; let’s try not to assist them.
Watch the NY mayoral race carefully
Quoting the article, this is the heart of our problem today ,the bottom of the bottomless abyss:
"mass delusion, one that has inverted the moral order and turned parts of the world upside down"
The inversion of the moral order means no less than Humanity being on its regressive way to reintegrate its nature with the beasts. Wherever anyone thinks the moral order comes from - human truly benevolent nature, group convenience, God's law or the Enlightenment- , based on simple generic divisions of right and wrong, in spite of societal or religious differences, we must conclude today that Orwell's inversion of practically everything in " 1984" is unquestionably demonstrated in the moral arena.
Good is evil, slaughter is good, truthfulness is deception, and so on, rendering the aptly termed " mass delusion" or " collective madness" no less perverse as when Nazis stirred most of the German people, who tacitly or openly celebrated the planned annihilation of Europe's Jewry. And much of Europe sympathized with that madness.
Why this full rejection of the most basic moral code? Is this supposed to drive Natural Selection to an Übermensch race of barbarians? Are the Nazi logic being celebrated and the Islamic Nazi theological and historical alliance making a comeback? Is de-evolution the deep aim of an over-civilised mob?
Is this narcissism, the individual's self-glorification, having lost true compassion and only acting the part?
Is this an indication that as a group- and we humans crave groups- we are no different from massive coordinated instinctual movements of animals? Schools of fish, flocks of birds, buffalo....?
One day I looked out into my backyard and the entire area was black. Within a split second, a huge wave of black birds flew in a perfectly curved formation. How do they do it?
People act the same. There is a switch and connected reactive antennae whose collective instant cognition bypasses logic. The birds don't have logic. Neither do those marching humans yelling the idiotic messages.
I assume, and perhaps some polling or stats might come handy, that the " silent majority" in the West does not condone the madness, and eventually will burst in anger at the sight of their societies on the way to destruction and the erasure of their culture.
I don't see a peaceful solution. Eventually, there will be war.
It seems like the push to fill England with Muslims is being orchestrated by jewish folks:
https://www.unz.com/article/barbaras-barbarians-how-jews-import-third-worlders-to-harm-whites-then-play-the-innocent-victim/
You need help
Excellent column. Well written as usual. You have a great command of the language and your points are presented clearly. I can’t tell how you feel about the possibility of acceptance by the global community of the truth, but I wouldn’t want to be hanging by my thumbs waiting for that acceptance.
Don’t we always?!
This is a good example of collective narcissism typical of Jews. Jews are categorically incapable of doing anything bad as a group. This is true of literally no other ethnic group except (oddly enough) the one ethnic group that is arguably the most hated in human history. Of course, everything in this article is bullshit. Or twisted into bullshit. Just an astonishing inability to look at one’s people with even the least pretense of objectivity. I get it. Ethnocentrism exists. Some groups (like Jews and other middle eastern peoples) are more ethnocentric than others (like northwestern Europeans). But come the fuck on.
You never read the Hebrew Bible? Israel is constantly berating itself for every conceivable moral misconduct, always blaming itself for every brutal invasion curtesy of colonisers and imperialists of every stripe, and the Prophets, even as they also express hope, pile endless vituperation upon their kin.
How can you be so ignorant in your Jew-hatred? At least know something.
Other anti-semites , more intelligent than you are , at least have used Israel’s own self-accusations to justify their murderous hatred. Just look at the horrifying history of the Christian persecution of Jews.
“Israel” isn’t in the Bible you moron. And none of the people in the Bible are “Israelis.”
The people of Israel, the children of Israel, the Jews, also referred to as Jacob, that's ISRAEL. In the past, as is recorded in the Bible, there was a Kingdom of Israel. The Assyrians conquered it and ten tribes were lost. The Tribes are called the tribes of Israel. Israel is as old as when Abraham immigrated from Mesopotamia, about 2,000 BC. Today, it is ALSO the State of Israel. My advise:
See a shrink.
Stop drinking.
Read the Hebrew Bible. Even in the Christian Bible Israel is mentioned.
Stop writing and showing what an unworthy lowlife you are.
Smart article as always
'The Battle of Great Apes, as they compete for Dominance and for the top spot!' .... Darwin understood this very well. China's Mao called the battle for Dominance between Nations 'The Battle of Chauvinism'. This competition, to be better than the rest, produces the best (and the worst!) of the World's culture and production, and is as alive today as this ever was. It is called Natural Selection. In today's iteration of this, Idea-Space, where all Human production starts at the desk top and the drawing-board, this is where the battles now take place. To be the Best!