According to Jake Wallis Simons, editor of the Jewish Chronicle, the ‘Israelophobia’ behind the woke Left’s enthusiasm for Hamas is just the latest manifestation of the world’s oldest hatred. He’s fleshed out this argument in the Telegraph.
In my position as editor of the Jewish Chronicle, I have been shown footage and images that others have not. One clip in particular, filmed by a terrorist with one hand while he perpetrated his crime with the other, has since been flashing into my mind unbidden. He was using a rod to put out the eyes of a corpse.
These are the acts being celebrated by liberals in Britain.
How did we get here? How did society reach a moment where the more progressive you are, the more likely you are to support such savagery? This demands an urgent cultural reckoning.
Blaming Jews for their own massacre, and revelling in it, is the most naked example of a corruption that has been quietly contaminating the bloodstream of the body politic for decades.
Jews are always the first victims of human darkness, but the rot goes much further. It spreads downwards from the progressive elites that sit at the top of our institutions – universities and the civil service, broadcasters and advertising agencies, theatres and museums – from where they cascade their creed into society.
These “progressive activists”, as the More in Common thinktank has labelled them, comprise about 13% of the population in Britain. But they exert disproportionate power, rendering many common and reasonable beliefs taboo.
Their dogma can be seen in pronouns on the lanyards of NHS officials, the transgender flag outside the Royal Opera House, the sea of Palestinian flags at Labour conference under Corbyn and countless other places.
Their worldview includes fixed positions on race, gender, decolonisation, sexuality, slavery and the Palestinians. Although much of this causes real harm, particularly to teenagers and Jews, these ideological positions are signifiers of social status rather than authentic moral positions. They are luxury beliefs.
It is striking how closely this group adheres to these orthodoxies. Because it is a question of identity, it is almost unthinkable for devotees to hold some of those views but not others, and very hard for them to change their minds. Last week, Jeremy Corbyn appeared unable to revise his vision of Hamas as “friends” even in the aftermath of the massacre.
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