Nothing Left to Say

When the United Nations turns from a terrorist apologist to an impartial observer, something must have happened that even that wretched hive of scum and villainy cannot spin. And, like a broken clock that’s right twice a day, the UN is right about every 500 days. In response to the horror of the return of the bodies of the Bibas children by Hamas, Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, remembered that Jews have human rights too and called the parading of the hostages’ remains “abhorrent and cruel”. Although the obsession with dead Jews as opposed to the living is still palpable, this is still an unexpected step in the right direction of moral clarity. A step sure to be followed by multiple steps backward, but still. . .

The New York Times, on the other hand, has yet to get the message that maybe they too should tone down their biases for the time being. On February 18, in the run up to the unspeakable tragedy of this past Thursday, the Grey Lady opined that “[f]or many Israelis, the story of the Bibas family has become a symbol of the brutality of the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack.” (emphasis added) Apparently, Hamas’s brutality is only a problem for the Israelis, not the rest of the world. When children get kidnapped and brutalized elsewhere, international condemnation is swift and filled with sign-holding celebrities and politicians. There was a run on hashtags in 2014 when 276 Nigerian girls were kidnapped by Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamist militants. But when Jewish children are stolen from their homes – #otherchildrenslivesmatter and #somethingsomethingcontext.

On February 21, the day after the return of the bodies of Kfir and Ariel Bibas and Oded Lifshitz and the discovery by the Israeli forensics team that the Bibas children were not, in fact, killed in an Israeli bombardment in Gaza as claimed by Hamas (shocking, right!), but by strangulation, the New York Times coldly observed that “[n]either side’s account could be independently verified.” Holding true to its centuries-long practice of not rushing to judgment, like, for example, when Hamas claimed over 500 dead due to an Israeli attack on a Gaza hospital and the brave journalists at the New York Times pushed back on that libelous narrative. Oh, wait, that’s not what they did at all.

To many, in this insane world, there is a credibility equivalence between Hamas and Israel. That when it comes to the Jewish state (and, let’s be honest, Jews in general), it can do nothing right and its enemies can do no wrong. Thus, you have the likes of Anne Norton, Stacey and Henry Jackson President’s Distinguished (?) Professor at the University of Pennsylvania praising Hamas for its spectacle last Thursday, stating: “Many of us saw and recognized this. My partner looked at the photos and said ‘They are giving the dead a guard of honor.’ The media is corrupt but their power is not unchallengeable[.]” In another lifetime, the same Ms. Norton and her ilk would have been praising the Nazis for their roomy showers in concentration camps.

Jew hatred is a corruption of the mind. It’s a rejection of reality in favor of a perversion that sees the parading of murdered babies as giving them honor, a failure to accept the fact that Hamas and its supporters are  terrorists capable of unspeakable brutality, a believe-all-women-unless-they-are-Jewish approach to sexual violence, and enabling a victim mentality and excusing personal responsibility for immeasurable acts of cruelty.

The only way forward is a strength of purpose and a resolute against-all-odds perseverance . . . coupled with a resounding kish mir in tukhas.