Western Double Standard
Updated 2023-10-29
2023-10-28 The Western Double Standard Enabling Attempted Genocide in Gaza The Western love of Zionism has always depended on erasing Palestinian history and humanity. Across the Western world, the official and media horror at this month’s unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel, which killed an estimated 1,300 soldiers and civilians, has been accompanied by overwhelming support for Israel’s ongoing brutality towards Gaza, which thus far has killed and wounded over 22,000 Palestinians, overwhelmingly civilians.
The latest installment of Philo-Zionism has exposed more clearly than ever a ruthless double standard that underlies the West’s attachment to Israel: While Jewish Israeli life and the state are virtually sacrosanct in the contemporary West, Muslim and Christian Palestinian life is fundamentally devalued.
Philo-Zionism relies on two pillars. These include a generalized Western view that Israel’s creation is a just and moral recompense for the history of European antisemitism that culminated with the Holocaust; and the consistent racist demonization of Israel’s opponents as non-Western barbarians of a peculiar antisemitic type. Indeed, Western support for Israel is rooted in the denial of Palestinians as a people with a centuries-old history and culture in the land of Palestine.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 infamously did not refer to Palestinians or Arabs directly, but simply alluded to the presence of “non-Jewish communities” who paled in historical, moral, and political significance when compared with the “Jewish people,” whose national aspirations the British government upheld. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/west-enabling-genocide-in-gaza
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