https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/other/woke-leaders-posing-as-moral-superiors-expo...

Might stir some of them - wake them up - to come after me to be vanquished....

It's amazing that such a dire situation is simply ignored by our local heroes ....

The New York Times, well known as a predominantly left-leaning paper published a devastating feature about the weaponisation of sexual violence by Hamas.

This long-form feature is the result of interviews with more than 150 people, including survivors and witnesses to the slaughter of October 7. It cites first-hand accounts and multiple primary sources, and meticulously explains how facts were verified. I don’t know how they managed. I could barely get through it. Their words dripped with grief, measured yet urgent with the weight of responsibility. The cadence of every line whispered: the world must know, the world must know.

Reading the responses to this article were an exercise in despair. Almost all expressed horror at the savagery of what had been documented, and thanked the reporters and the paper for bearing witness. Many more concurrently dived into the filthy waters of moral equivalence; this was savage and barbaric, they said. But, also, Israel sort of deserved it.

I realised in that moment there is a bloodstained thread that bound Ryvchin’s book to the article and the comments that followed. Denial. Denial of truth. Denial of facts. Denial that a moral centre has been violated.

I see no difference in the societal elites who centuries ago concocted the most ridiculous blood libel tales to violently enact pogroms on Jews across Europe and those who today are responding to the unthinkable sexual violence of Hamas with, well, Israel really is the oppressor.  Surely this thinking is a kind of sickness?

The NYT report details verified images of women’s corpses with nails driven into their thighs and groins. It verified a video showing two dead female IDF soldiers who had been shot directly into their vaginas. They interviewed a survivor who, hidden and feigning death, watched Hamas fighters mutilate a woman’s breasts while she was being raped.

I don’t want to go on, to keep recounting these horrors, but we must, as long as there are still people whose response is conditional. Who respond with, yes … but.

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French-Israeli hostage Mia Schem has given details of her ordeal during her 54 days held in Gaza. She was held captive by a Palestinian family. She talks of being confused – why is there a woman here? Why is there a family here? Then the penny dropped.

The same media that have been so swift, say, to believe all women, believe any woman who says anything about sexual violence, published an insulting disclaimer to Schem’s words, saying her account was yet to be verified. By all means, pop over to Gaza and ask the family that held her. I’m sure they will be honest and transparent.

Ah, but to believe Mia Schem means a brick in the protective wall of ideology comes down. Perhaps the wall itself. To deny her story is to stay in the same cocoon that refuses to accept a ceasefire, without Hamas surrender and the safe return of the still living hostages, is a fool’s errand.

How many would need to completely reframe their political thinking, perhaps even parts of their identity? Mia Schem’s testimony says what history taught us. Just as not every German was a Nazi, there were many enthusiastic Nazis in German society. Not every Gazan is Hamas, but only the greatest fool would deny that a proportion of everyday Gazans are complicit. That they know where the hostages are, and are happily complicit.

Denial feels safe, but it never is. It simply postpones the inevitable pain of realising what was there all along. To the many who continue to say, oh but sexual violence has always been a weapon of war, you are in denial. You are minimising the most atrocious acts of femicide in our times.

The blood of every innocent civilian life lost in Gaza is on Hamas. Not only has it rejected every ceasefire offered, refusing to release the living hostages, it has promised it will repeat October 7 until Israel, Jews and Christians are wiped from the map. Hamas is not denying this and neither must democracies in the West.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/inquirer/maniacal-hatred-of-jews-festers-in-coc...

John Smith wrote on Jan 6^th, 2024 at 8:45am:



The great irony of the tidal wave of anti-Jew invective that has come Stephen Fry’s way over the past 48 hours is that it has perfectly proved his point. He goes on TV to say we are witnessing a ‘rise in anti-Jewish racism’ and right away there’s a spike in anti-Jewish racism. Even before he’d finished his touching fireside homily on Jew hate, the Jew haters were out in force to ask: ‘Who the bugger does he think he is?’ A Jew on TV? At Christmas? Wanging on about the victimisation of Jews? Vomit emoji. That was literally the response of the army of arseholes that passes for the left these days, every one of them too dim to realise they were making Fry’s case for him.


Fry’s message was fair and benign. You’d have to be a frothing loon to object to it. He ‘came out’ as a Jew. He offered cold, hard facts. Since the Hamas pogrom of 7 October there have been 50 anti-Semitic incidents a day in London, he said. That’s an eye-watering 1,350 per cent rise in Jew-hate incidents. It’s the greatest rise in anti-Jewish racism in the UK since modern records began. He slammed the ‘venomous slurs’ heaped on Britain’s Jews in recent weeks. He made a plea for a return to the ‘decency’ our nation is famed for. And he ended on a note of Kumbaya. The ‘simple truth’, he said, is that ‘we are all brothers and sisters’: ‘It’s naive, but it’s as good a message as any other.’




His only openly political comment concerned the far right, who, he said, love to point out that he’s Jewish. The far right is a menace, for sure. Their Jew hate has become more brazen in recent weeks. But the greatest threat to Jews in Britain today comes not from racist oafs from the 1970s, but from radicalised sections of the Muslim community, their craven apologists in the middle class and a polite society that disguises its suspicion of Jews as criticism of Israel. Confronting both Islamist and woke anti-Semitism is the pressing task of our time. Fry should be thanked for showing us how pressing it is.

tickleandrose wrote on Jan 6^th, 2024 at 4:10pm:

And? What are you groping for?

Being an atheist lowlife lefty is anti Jew, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, aboriginal etc, etc.

Frank wrote on Jan 11^th, 2024 at 9:31am:



Frank and the option that leaves no doubt. “Oh Magoo You've Done It Again".

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Mr Paterson said Prime Minister Anthony Albanese should have gone to Israel as Australia’s closest allies and partners did; including the United Sates, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the European Union and Canada.

He also highlighted the "rampant" anti-Semitism across the Western world, calling on the Prime Minister to "tackle this scourge before it becomes an absolute tragedy in our own country".

But the shadow frontbencher said it was ultimately clear the government was worried about the domestic political implications and its "pro-Palestinian supporters".

"She can't be seen to be being too sympathetic to the Jewish people, the Israeli people who died on the 7th of October," he said.

"And has to be seen to be so-called even-handed by meeting with victims of settler violence in the West Bank, which is a serious issue, but nowhere near on par of the greatest loss of Jewish life since the Holocaust, which is what happened on the 7th of October.

"It’s a very disappointing thing from this government. I think they should be ashamed of the way they conduct themselves in this."