Genocidal Islamism and its 'liberal' stans
What the response to October 7 reveals about the state of the West
Hamas’ massacre on October 7, 2023 was the deadliest attack against the Jewish people in a single day since the Holocaust; a pogrom aimed at the ruthless and deliberate extinguishment of Israeli life carried out by a group whose founding charter and leading members explicitly call for the elimination of the Jews and Israel1. The crimes committed were the purest manifestation of evil2, and demonstrated the nature of what Israel is up against in the starkest of terms.
A peaceful bunch: Hamas leaders in their own words
While it is hard to think of any ‘upside’ to such an unspeakable atrocity, it did at least serve to throw certain disturbing trends in our own society into sharper relief. The response to it has demonstrated beyond doubt just how widespread and deep-rooted Islamist antisemitism and attitudes more broadly now are, not just in the Muslim world but across the West. It has also (further) highlighted the risks posed by the proliferation to near-all dominance of authoritarian liberal groupthink in elite cultural, academic, media and, increasingly, corporate circles, and shone a light on the mind-blowing hypocrisy and cynicism of its leading acolytes (not that this wasn’t blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention beforehand).
Let’s start with the legions of self-proclaimed ‘anti-racists’ and ‘anti-fascists’ who’ve come to dominate the public sphere with their shrill hectoring. These clowns have spent years asserting that peaceful, tolerant western society is a systemically racist, dystopian hellhole. So how did they respond to the real life genocidal mass murder of Jews, Israelis and others? They released podcasts depicting the massacre as ‘the oppressed striking back for freedom and justice’. They demanded the total eradication of the state of Israel, and endorsed violent intifada. They joined rowdy marches part-organised by top Hamas figures, called the attacks a ‘day of celebration’, ‘a heroic moment of resistance’, and ‘the greatest day of [their] life’. ‘Reap what you sow’, tweeted one former Labour MP. These are ‘resistance fighters’, said another. ‘Academics’ described their feeling of ‘exhilaration’ upon hearing of the mini-Holocaust, and expressed their support. BLM’s Chicago branch praised the armed terrorists who flew into the Nova music festival on paragliders before slaughtering hundreds of its attendees (see below).
BLM loons posting in support of antisemitic murder
Virtue-signalling ‘women’s rights activists’ and supposedly ‘feminist’ dimwits who tell us to ‘believe all women’ and insist that secular, democratic society is in the grip of a ‘rape culture’, have responded to the actual mass murder, torture, rape and sexual assault of Jews and Israelis by mocking the victims (see below), then implying it’s all made up. Blue-haired ‘antifa’ freaks who compare moderate conservatives to Hitler walk the streets tearing up posters of Jewish kids who’ve been stolen from their parents by a regime that uses its state TV channel to encourage the children of Gaza to shoot every Jew on Earth. I could go on and on.
Step 1: Claim to oppose rape culture. Step 2: get 56k ‘likes’ for mocking the appearance of a Jewish woman who was shot in the arm then sexually assaulted after her friend was murdered by jihadists.
These people are the biggest frauds on planet earth. They cosplay against imagined oppression and label almost anyone who disagrees with them a ‘Nazi’, a ‘white supremacist’, etc, while downplaying or justifying the almost indescribable savagery of an actually fascist, actually supremacist jihadist death cult, and demonising the victims of that cult.
And then we have the Islamists and Muslim antisemites. Where to begin? They’ve beaten up, attacked and tried to stab people for criticising Hamas, and donned the group’s paraphernalia. They’ve praised Hitler, called for ‘death to all the Jews’ and for Jews to be gassed. They’ve burned down synagogues, drawn swastikas on tube carriages, vandalised Jewish schools, destroyed menorahs, and assaulted, beaten up and killed members of the Jewish community. They’ve torn down thousands of posters depicting the faces of kidnapped Jewish men, women and children, and hurled abuse at anyone (myself included - see the video here) trying to stop them. And, lest we forget, they’ve also launched numerous deadly terror attacks, claiming the lives of innocent European citizens (you’d be forgiven for forgetting this given how quickly such ‘incidents’ drop out of the headlines). Reminder - all of this was in direct response to the genocidal mass murder of 1200 people by Hamas (and other Gazans).
Online and in interviews, they feign outrage when being asked to condemn Hamas, while simultaneously posting and reposting images and memes that praise Hamas. They claim to want a ceasefire, while speaking approvingly of the Hamas terrorists who broke the previously-existing ceasefire, and demanding Jihad against the Jews and Israel. They claim it’s outrageous to suggest that they’re Jew-haters, while tens of thousands of them retweet insults about a dead Jewish woman (see below) whose desecrated body was spat on by baying crowds of ‘innocent’ Palestinians. They claim it’s ‘Islamophobic’ to suspect them of supporting terrorism, while publicly cheering on jihadists.
15k ‘likes’ for a tweet mocking a women who was murdered by Hamas and whose body was paraded in front of cheering Gazans (who also spat on and defiled it).
Enough. You need not blindly support everything Israel does (I do not), oppose a ceasefire (I am undecided), or be unmoved by the horrendous loss of life in Gaza, to see that many of Israel’s loudest critics are not the honest, decent, peace-loving actors they seek to present themselves as being.
Islamic extremism and conspiratorial Jew-hatred motivated the attack on Israel, and the response has been a further outpouring of similar bigotry and propaganda aimed at the victims of that attack, led by Islamists and progressive zealots. Even if you somehow reached October 2023 without noticing the spread of these repulsive, dogmatic belief systems, there’s now no longer an excuse for overlooking them. They not only pose a threat to Jews but to tolerance and secular values more broadly.
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Hamas’ 1988 charter states that ‘the Day of Judgment will not come about until Muslims fight Jews and kill them.’ Senior Hamas figures have repeated this claim on numerous occasions.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-a-holocaust-scholar-thinks-comparisons-with-the-oct-7-hamas-massacre-are-valid/
Excellent essay, captures the extent of the atrocity and doesn't mince words. Appreciate the inclusion of links to support assertions and statements.
Thank you. Very good article. A small island of reality in a big ocean of lies.
I completely agree with the author that critics of Israel and anti-Israeli anti-Semitic media have absolutely no idea what they are writing and talking about. I am horrified by the total illiteracy of the progressive world.
They take lies like a drug, cannot live without it and become hysterical when they do not receive a dose of lies or when they hear the truth instead of lies.