Saying It Is Antisemitic To Oppose Genocide Is Like Saying It Is Anti-Catholic To Oppose Pedophilia by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2025-04-27 at 07:36:45 )

Saying It Is Antisemitic To Oppose Genocide Is Like Saying It Is Anti-Catholic To Oppose Pedophilia by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

There are two sides to most conflicts. There are not two sides to this one.

On Sunday Israel bombed the al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital, which readers may remember as the hospital that Israel ferociously insisted it did not bomb in October 2023 and accused anyone who said otherwise of antisemitic blood libel. According to a statement from the Episcopal Churchs Diocese of Jerusalem, this is now the fifth time this hospital has been bombed since the beginning of the Gaza onslaught.

The IDF is predictably claiming there was a Hamas base in the hospital, because that is what they always do. The hospitals are Hamas, the ambulances are Hamas, the journalists are Hamas, the United Nations is Hamas, the schools are Hamas, the children are Hamas, every building in Gaza is Hamas, and anyone who disputes this is also Hamas.

God this gets old.

Israel, October 2023: How dare you say we bombed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital? We would never bomb a hospital!

Israel, 2023-2025: *bombs all hospitals in Gaza*

Israel, April 2025: We just bombed Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital again.

Saying that opposing genocide is hateful toward Jews is like saying that opposing child molestation is hateful toward Catholics.

Western Zionists will be like, "All this hate for Israel makes me feel anxious and unsafe!"

Really? Are you sure that is what you are feeling? Are you sure it is not guilt? Gut-wrenching guilt about all those dead kids in the genocide you support? Or cognitive dissonance, because your entire worldview is wrong?

People often say I hate Israel, but what is weird is they say it like it is a bad thing.

So far the "President of Peace" has started a relentless bombing campaign in Yemen, reignited the Gaza holocaust, and shifted more United States war machinery to west Asia in preparation for war with Iran, all while getting ready to announce the first ever trillion-dollar Pentagon budget.

Trump is just as awful a warmonger as Biden. If there is a war with Iran he will be far worse. He has not even gotten a Ukraine ceasefire.

The western political faction that is doing the most to help murder children in Gaza are not the "Yeehaw kill them Arabs" fanatics of the far right, but the "Gosh it is so complicated, both sides hate each other and they have been at war for millennia" fence-sitting of the so-called moderate.

The latter is far more destructive because it is much more widespread and accepted in mainstream western discourse. You can not be a good talkshow liberal if you are saying you want to exterminate every living organism in Gaza, but if you hem and haw about ancient unresolvable conflicts and how complicated it all is, you can maintain your vaguely progressivish self-image while still encouraging everyone to allow the western empire to continue backing an active genocide.

And it is just complete nonsense. This is not complicated; it is exactly what it looks like. A military force backed by the most powerful empire in history is waging a campaign of extermination and ethnic cleansing to eliminate an undesirable population by raining military explosives onto a giant concentration camp full of children. There are two sides to most conflicts. There are not two sides to this one.

And this is not an ancient conflict, it is the culmination of abuses which were initiated by western powers dropping a brand new settler-colonialist ethnostate on top of a pre-existing civilization after the second world war.

There was no reason to believe the middle east would not have joined the rest of the world in settling into a more peaceful status quo after WWII without western imperialists forcefully inserting an artificial apartheid state into the region like a shard of glass into a foot and then keeping it there by any amount of violence necessary.

Sure the middle east had plenty of violence prior to the world wars, but if you have ever read American and European history you will know this was not anything unique to the middle east; it was the norm around the world. It was not until after WWII that things settled down a bit and westerners grew accustomed to a more peaceful status quo; the only reason the middle east was not allowed to join in that movement was because of aggressive western intervention.

By just shrugging saying "Yeah the Israelis hate the Palestinians and the Palestinians hate the Israelis, who is to say who is right," this mainstream line tacitly promotes the notion that we should just let things play out as they are rather than doing everything we can to stop an active genocide that is being backed by our own leaders. And this is the position put forward by most of the people with prominent voices in our society. They are not just not helping, they are discouraging everyone else from helping too!!

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