How Hamas killed my wokeness
ALEX OLSHONSKY
As Israel is pulled into a conflict governed by
jihadist game theory – where civilians are intentionally used as shields so that dead children can be broadcast as propaganda puppets on social media – anti-Semitism has and surely will continue to intensify around the world. In London, anti-Semitic hate crimes have already risen by 1350 per cent. Watch it grow, worldwide.
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During the past few weeks I have heard no Jew wish violence upon Gazans; I’ve witnessed many American ( and Australian, British) so-called progressives who wish violence upon Jews. In response to raped teenagers and headless babies, a common leftist online refrain has been: “What did you think decolonisation looked like?”
That’s not progressivism. That’s bloodthirst.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/how-hamas-killed-my-wokeness/news-story/4ea6009537115c59bd3abc724050024a
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A crisis of courage. ... the courage to call bullshit on a wide range of things we know not to be true but, for whatever reasons, have been tolerated. Things like the bitter, deceptive lies that underpin identity politics in all its forms. That all we have is identity, that the colour of our skin or our sexuality matters more than a person’s character. That we have no agency. That resilience doesn’t matter. A culture that celebrates, honours and even venerates victimhood in all its forms.
Has our tolerance of such self-indulgent folly, over time, at least in part created a culture of moral weakness? Has it led us down a path towards this moment we seem horribly unprepared to face?
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/crisis-of-courage-in-the-face-of-unspeakable-hamas-barbarism/news-story/581bd114c3f21bdb039e506db8a109b5