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Western Leftists Have Lost the Plot
Many people woke up on October 7 sympathetic to parts of woke ideology and went to bed that evening questioning how they had signed on to a worldview that had nothing to say about the mass rape and murder of innocent people by terrorists.
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Why then are decent people today afraid to call evil by its name? Why do so many insist on finding moral equivalence? And why do so many people describe the worst of evils—the deliberate targeting of children—with positive-sounding terms like “freedom fighting,” while describing reasonable efforts to prevent these Nazi-like evils as Nazism itself?
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
A similar homology applies to the term “terrorism.” During the period of Jewish struggle against the British military in Palestine, “terrorist” had a positive connotation. In the late 1940s, American newspapers ran an advertisement with the headline, “Letter to the Terrorists of Palestine,” wherein the Hollywood screenwriter Ben Hecht wrote, “My Brave Friends. You may not believe what I write you, for there is a lot of fertilizer in the air at the moment. The Jews of America are for you.” #israel #palestine #hamás
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"Palestinians are often pinioned between two opposing but equally harmful tendencies: to turn them into abstractions on a political stage, or to turn away from them because what they’re enduring is too horrendous to truly grapple with
Ann Friedman • The Stats vs. The Story
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The reason the ultra-left run into so many ideological incon...
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Arendt saw that in her time, too. “Instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.”
Brooke Gladstone • The Trouble With Reality
The reason the ultra-left run into so many ideological inconsistencies is because they are underdogphiles. They see the underdog through a highly fetishized and sympathetic lens.
Support for the underdog isn’t a bad thing—and in fact, it’s actually highly necessary in many cases—but their fetishization amounts to blanket support, meaning there is no... See more
Support for the underdog isn’t a bad thing—and in fact, it’s actually highly necessary in many cases—but their fetishization amounts to blanket support, meaning there is no... See more
Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن • Tweet
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When I was a clueless young leftist I too believed Israel was the oppressor and Palestinians were the oppressed, because that’s what everyone around me was saying, and my empty mind was a vacuum that sucked it all up. Once I escaped my echo-chamber, and began to objectively assess the facts, I realized just how unfairly Israel has been demeaned — n... See more