IGNORE THE GENOCIDE, PLEASE
ACTUAL GENOCIDES ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. BUT YOU DON’T HEAR ABOUT THEM.
There are so many stupid people writing so many stupid things on social media that it is like the old parable of the infinite number of monkeys at an infinite number of typewriters. Except rather than writing all the world’s literary masterpieces, they inevitably descend into an avalanche of the most awe-inspiring absurdity.
On a neighborhood Facebook group recently in Vancouver (extrapolate this by, like, a kabillion worldwide) someone complained about all the “political” commentary polluting their neighborhood. (This is the neighborhood I wrote about recently, one with a large Jewish population, where one jackass has made a fulltime job of chalking anti-Israel hate messages on every flat surface.)
In response to the complaint from one commenter that they can’t go for a walk on their street without being bombarded with frenzied rhetoric about the Middle East, someone responded: “The messages about Gaza are actually targeted towards people like you — seemingly indifferent to the worst case of genocide we have seen this century.”
So much to unpack here.
First, there is no genocide in Gaza.
And even if there were, this brainiac apparently has no awareness that, from 2003 to 2008, 300,000 Darfuris were murdered in the genocide there. So this commenter haughtily calls out the head-in-the-sand nonchalance of their neighbors toward “the worst case of genocide we have seen this century” while actively sticking their head in the sand about the actual worst case of genocide we have seen this century — a genocide with a death rate toll four, five or six times greater than the war in Gaza they pretend is a genocide.
And they do it with such smug condescension.
I wonder if this person even knows that more than 40,000 have been killed in Darfur and about 12 million displaced just since 2023. Probably not. Like most activists today, humanitarian concerns begin and end in Gaza.
They don’t give a damn about other people, apparently. While self-righteously accusing their neighbors of ignoring a genocide, this commentator and millions of other activists actively divert attention from current, actual genocides to score cheap political points against Israel, which is operating a defensive war with lower rates of civilian casualties than most comparable conflagrations.
Meanwhile, in a story similar to the experiences of probably millions of Jews in recent weeks, Galit Solomon wrote in Canada’s National Post about a dinner party at which she was tokenized and vilified as a Jew because someone doesn’t like the idea of Israelis defending themselves from murderers who are explicitly committed to the genocide of Jews.
At the dinner, Solomon’s partner mentioned that it was Rosh Hashanah and another person at the table declared: “I will not be celebrating the Jewish New Year because there is a genocide happening.”
Only in a world where words have no set definitions could what is happening in Gaza be termed a genocide. (Of course, the Palestinian movement has redefined all sorts of words — “refugee,” “apartheid,” etc. — so why should a trivial word like “genocide” be an impediment to them?)
It’s not the ignorance that is so infuriating — that is sort of forgivable — but the pious snottiness of these people that is so galling.
Imagine if someone had the audacity to say, “I will not be celebrating the Orthodox Christmas because Russia invaded Ukraine.” Or, “I will not be celebrating Ramadan because [insert any of the countless atrocities being perpetrated by Muslim-majority countries and Islamic non-state actors].” Or maybe, “I will not be celebrating Vesak because Buddhists in Myanmar are terrorizing Rohingya.” Or possibly, “I will not be celebrating Pride Month because my lesbian cousin didn’t send a thank you note for the place setting I gave them for their wedding.”
Do you see how ridiculous (and bigoted) that sounds?
You would never get away with this in polite company — except if you say it about Jews. Because, in polite company, you can now get away with shit like that.
If everything is a genocide, then nothing is a genocide.
But there are genocides happening. And you don’t hear about those actual genocides, do you? Because it’s all about fake genocide in Palestine! Palestine! Palestine!
I’ll elaborate on that phenomenon in my next post. Because the hypocrisy of the world’s humanitarian set is quantifiable. We can measure it. It’s ugly as hell. And it’s huge.
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English philosopher John Gray wrote long before Oct 7: ‘It has long been known that those who perform great acts of kindness are rarely forgiven. The same is true of those who suffer irreparable wrongs. When will Jews be forgiven the Holocaust?’
Now the left and Muslims have expropriated the Holocaust to use as a weapon against Jews, and they are self-righteous about it. It's astonishing, malevolent and sick.
Two years into Israeli military domination of Gaza, and maybe 2% of the population has died, half of whom are combatants. If this is genocide, it's the most incompetent genocide in history. Calling it genocide is a joke. It IS a war. Hamas's war. Started by Hamas, and still useful in advancing Hamas's goals.