Following the terrible events that took place in Israel, we have seen on social media many prominent figures from the left have publicly rejoiced at the horrendous atrocities committed by Hamas fighters.
I do not intend to give a reasoned opinion on the conflict or take a position. In this war, there are wrongdoings on both sides. For instance, the Israeli army has perpetrated atrocious crimes in the past such as the use of the ban chemical white phosphorus in densely populated civilian residential areas situated in the Gaza Strip[i].
However, it is highly disturbing to witness that the war crimes committed against civilians by the Hamas, the rapes, family kidnappings, murders … have been celebrated by the far left as an emancipation from the Israeli colonial state.
According to those liberals, the barbarity constitutes a legitimate act of resistance. They interpret the massacre of civilians as the Palestinian effort to reclaim their land and dignity.
Their intellectual alliance with Islamist terrorists against a common enemy i.e. the western civilisation deemed oppressive, has given birth to a political chimera: Islamo-wokeism.
This political alliance is the connivance between the decoloniality doctrine (critiques of the perceived superiority of Western culture) and left “Third Worldism” (philosophy attributing the responsibility for poverty in the Third World to the interventions of Western countries).
Ideologically confined in their woke dogma – a Manichaean narrative in which oppressed Palestinian represent “the good” and are necessarily always right – they are unable to denounce war crimes. They are incapable of nuances in the analysis of the situation.
As such, the Muslim world is viewed as virtuous in opposition with the so-called oppressive Western Christian world and for that reason, many Third Worldist liberals stand with Palestine and justify war crimes committed by the Hamas fighters on account of their hatred of the West incarnated by Israel allied with the United States.
In the name of righteousness, those who consider themselves as being on the side of humanity, legitimize and celebrate barbaric atrocities, rape, kidnapping, torture … the violence against civilians whose only fault is to be associated with designated oppressors.
[i] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2009/01/israel-used-white-phosphorus-gaza-civilian-areas-20090119/
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