Words are violence, say the woke, but they love what Hamas did. By Ramesh Thakur.

The same social-justice crowd that insists words are literal violence wants us to contextualise actual violence as a necessity, rape as resistance, incineration as liberation.

Young people whose self-introductions include preferred pronouns have adopted the chants of a genocidal death cult as anti-Semitism moves in from the fringes to occupy the public square. … The terrorists have been valorised, Israel vilified, Jews attacked and threatened, posters of the missing hostages torn down. …

Hamas wants the extermination of Israel, not reconciliation with it. Its explicit, charter goal is to liquidate Israel and ethnically cleanse Jews “from the river to the sea”. Its strategy is to delegitimise the Jewish state. Its tactics are to target Israeli civilians and endanger Palestinian civilians as human shields by placing fighters under hospitals and ammunition in schools.

Hamas and Israel cannot coexist. …

Proportional??

The international humanitarian law requirement of proportionality does not mean in proportion to the initial attack but in relation to the military objective. If the number of civilians killed in the war is very high, that’s due to Hamas hiding fighters and weaponry deep amid civilian populations. …

Old fashioned:

No context is needed to know that burning children and parents tied together and raping women next to the bodies of slain revellers are evil. …

Too many youngsters live in Tik Tok land, indoctrinated by the CCP. Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong sympathizes:

Wong has taken sides. It may yet turn out to be the right side of history, given the muddled morality of the huge numbers of rabidly anti-Jewish protesters across the West. But it is unquestionably the wrong side of morality. She should watch Israel’s 43 minutes of raw footage from October 7 using CCTV security cameras, dashcams and GoPro cameras used by the terrorists.