By lauding the Palestinians, the left forgives itself for shocking treatment of Jews over the centuries. By James Lindsay.
I read the most profound thing I think I’ve ever read about European support for “Palestine,” and I don’t think I’ll be able to unsee it now.
It’s that by imagining Palestine to be real and the victim of Jewish colonialism and genocide, they can imagine Jews as the actual Nazis and thereby assuage themselves of their overwhelming guilt for the 20th century, not to mention a long and ugly history before.
By finding a way to stain the Jews and Israel with those same moral evils they themselves feel the weight of, but for imaginary instead of genuine reasons, Europeans can not only remove but reverse the mark of the evil they inflicted on Jews over their entire history, not remotely least during the Holocaust.
Thus, and only thus, can they forgive themselves for their unforgivable sins, but like everything Leftist, it’s empty and inverted.
The Nazis were socialists, and therefore of the left. Individual freedom lovers and individualists they were not. They were collectivists — not as extreme as the communists, more like the EU.
If British jews are to be held responsible for what happens in Gaza…then by the same reasoning British Muslims should be held responsible for the massacres of Christians by Muslims in Nigeria.