Facing the Mirror: All Victims Are Equal, but Some Are Less Equal

Jew-Hatred as Global Currency Marks the West’s Intellectual Bankruptcy

Title deliberately adapted from George Orwell’s Animal Farm (1945). In Orwell’s allegory, the pigs twisted the language of equality to mask tyranny.

I. The Pigs – Who are the Pigs?

They are the governments, courts, and protest movements that preach equality while practicing discrimination — declaring all victims equal, but treating Jewish victims as less equal.

When nearly 3,000 Americans died on 9/11, the world stood shoulder to shoulder with Washington. NATO invoked Article 5 for the first time. No one doubted America’s right to hunt down its enemies. Within weeks, Afghanistan was invaded; within two years, Iraq. Hundreds of thousands would die, chaos would consume entire nations, and young soldiers would be dropped into Hell itself, many returning traumatized or broken. Yet no global protests filled the streets. No boycotts targeted American citizens. No UN tribunals indicted American presidents or generals.

As Peter Knoope observed, the collective trauma of October 7 for Israel can indeed be compared to America’s 9/11. The scale and shock were equivalent. This is misleading. To grasp the proportional impact, the United States would have to scale Israel’s losses by population. With roughly 9.5 million citizens, Israel’s 1,200 murdered civilians equate to about 37,000 Americans killed in a single day — including hundreds of burned children and babies, and men who were beheaded. The 250 hostages translate to 7,500 kidnapped Americans, alongside thousands of women and girls raped and sexually tortured.

The trauma of 9/11 was immense. But imagine that instead of 2,300 victims, America had suffered 37,000 — the proportional equivalent of what Hamas inflicted on Israel. Imagine further that the terrorists not only struck the Twin Towers, but then butchered every single inhabitant of Battery Park City and continued into Tribeca to slaughter every person there — mother, father, child, baby, it did not matter. The scenes of bloodshed would be too horrific to show the world. Like in Israel, no family in the area or beyond would remain untouched, and an even darker cloud of depression would hang over the United States.

But here lies the grotesque disparity: when America struck back, it was seen as justice; when Israel strikes back, it is painted as a crime. The pigs of our age bless American wars while condemning Jewish survival.

II. The Sheep – Worldwide Protests in Jew-Hatred: Evidence of a Global IQ Decline

Crowds now fill the boulevards of Western capitals, chanting in unison: “Free Palestine,” “From the River to the Sea.” Like Orwell’s sheep, they repeat slogans without thought, drowning out nuance with noise. These same streets were silent when Obama sent SEAL teams to kill Osama bin Laden on Pakistani soil — killing others in the process. Silent when Assad butchered hundreds of thousands in Syria. Silent when Eritrean militias massacred Somalis or when Russia devastated Ukraine.

Their rage is highly selective. It awakens only when the victims are Jews who dare to defend themselves.

III. The Dogs – False Hounds on an Antisemitic Diet

In Orwell’s Animal Farm, the dogs were raised as the pigs’ enforcers — conditioned to attack on command. Today’s dogs are the international institutions: false hounds, fattened on an antisemitic diet, trained to bite not the aggressors but the victims.

Where are the indictments for America’s drone wars, which killed thousands of civilians in Yemen, Somalia, and Afghanistan? Where are the sanctions on Iran for arming proxies that slaughter innocents across the Middle East? The dogs bite only one target. Their loyalty is not to justice, but to the pigs whose narrative they serve.

IV. Hypocrisy Laid Bare

Let us pose a simple thought experiment: What if Mexican militias crossed the border, stormed American towns, slaughtered not the equivalent 37,000 but ‘only’ 1,200 people, raped women and daughters, burned families alive, beheaded men, and dragged 300 Americans into captivity — dozens under 18, some even under 5? What if the world saw videos of babies ripped from their mothers’ arms as hostages? What if American media broadcast that infants had been strangled in captivity?

Would the United States not flatten Mexico in retaliation? Would the hunt for every last perpetrator not be relentless — just as it was for bin Laden, when thousands of innocents were written off as collateral damage? And do we doubt for a second that U.S. forces would do everything in their power to bring every American citizen home? That CBS, NBC, and every major network would broadcast the faces of the missing daily, with anguished families filling the airwaves until the last hostage returned? That European networks would pick it up and turn it into a constant global headline?

And tell me: who in Europe would flood the streets to protest America’s right to defend its people? Who would be so idiotically suicidal as to demand restraint in the face of such barbarism? And who would have the nerve to attack American citizens in Europe because of it?

And here is the ultimate question: If Mexican militias had carried out such an atrocity and America invaded in response — just as it did in Afghanistan and Iraq after bin Laden’s terror — would the pigs and their dogs have dared to declare Mexico the victim? Would they have sanctified bin Laden and his band of murderers as oppressed freedom fighters? Or is this grotesque inversion reserved exclusively for Jews — for Jewish children burned with their parents, for Jewish fathers beheaded, for Jewish teenage girls raped, for Jewish babies strangled, for Jewish toddlers and grandparents dragged into captivity? All victims are equal, we are told, but not when the victims are Jews.

V. Conclusion – From Animal Farm to Global Farce

The grotesque irony of our age is that Jews — history’s perennial scapegoats — are singled out not for aggression but for survival. Other nations may wage endless wars, topple governments, and leave mass graves in their wake, yet still be embraced as legitimate actors. Only Israel is cast out, boycotted, and judged by standards applied to no one else. This is not justice; it is not compassion. It is the old contagion of Jew-hatred, dressed in the robes of international law and the chants of the street.

Jew-hatred has become the West’s cheapest political currency. Cheap to spend, easy to applaud, and devastating in its consequences. Orwell’s allegory warned of tyranny disguised as equality. Today we live in its sequel: all victims are equal, but Jewish victims are always less equal.

Facts Conveniently Ignored

– 9/11 (2001): ~3,000 killed (NIST, 2005)

– Iraq War (2003–2011): >200,000 civilian deaths (Iraq Body Count; Brown University, Costs of War)

– Afghanistan (2001–2021): Tens of thousands of civilians killed; hundreds of thousands of soldiers traumatized (Brown University, Costs of War)

– Obama’s Abbottabad Operation (2011): Osama bin Laden killed; collateral deaths documented (Bergen, 2012)

– Drone Strikes (2004–2017): Thousands of civilians killed (Bureau of Investigative Journalism)

– Syria (2011–present): >500,000 civilian deaths (UN Human Rights Office, 2022)

– Knoope comparison (2023): The trauma of October 7 for Israel parallels America’s 9/11 (ICCT Brief)