I confess, I’m continually astonished by the lengths today’s leftists go to warp normal moral understanding and back the clerical fascist movement to eliminate Jews from the Levant. I understand it, and I will explain it below, but I remain astonished. This was the side I once and proudly stood on. I can’t anymore.
This isn’t anti-Zionist sentiment (even if we presume Jewish nationalism is a bad thing). It’s naked antisemitism. The Jews are literally being compared to Nazis, when the reality is exactly the opposite. The fascist threat today is Islamism—and the transnational forces that use it for their own ends.
Consider the widespread condemnation of Israel’s blockade of Gaza in light of history. The anti-Israel brigade is rampant on social media.
The Allied blockade of Nazi Germany during World War II was a major strategic effort cutting off the Reich’s access to vital imports, including food, medicine, and raw materials. The blockade severely restricted Germany’s ability to trade with neutral countries and obtain supplies from overseas, contributing to widespread shortages throughout the war.
The situation worsened drastically after 1942 as the war turned against Nazi Germany. Food became scarce, especially in urban areas, and the quality and the availability and quantity of medical supplies declined sharply.
The results were terrible. The blockade, combined with Allied bombing campaigns, which reduced many German cities to rubble, left the German population struggling with inadequate medical care, malnutrition, and poor health, particularly in the final years of the war, and in the aftermath of the war.
Yet, there were no widespread protests in Allied countries against the blockade of Nazi Germany. Nor was there significant public condemnation of the Allies or widespread sympathy for Nazi Germany over the suffering caused by the blockade.
Why? Because the moral compass then pointed true north.
In Allied countries public opinion overwhelmingly and rightly viewed Nazi Germany as the instigator of a brutal war, responsible for invading countries and committing atrocities. Sympathy for German civilians was limited, especially after revelations of war crimes and the Holocaust began to emerge. If you took Germany’s side you were seen as crackpot.
To be sure, toward the end of the war, humanitarian groups and individuals expressed concern about conditions in Europe, including Germany. However, their concern focused on postwar reconstruction and aid—especially for displaced persons, children, and noncombatants—rather than any sympathy for the Nazi regime.
The blockade of Gaza by Israel, much like the Allied blockade of Nazi Germany during World War II, is a strategic effort aimed at choking a hostile and violent regime from access to weapons, military supplies, and dual-use materials that could be used to further acts of terror.
As with the Allies during WWII, the intent is not to purposely harm civilians but to weaken a regime that has openly declared its goal to destroy a neighboring state, massacre civilians, and use its own people as human shields.
The blockade restricts Hamas’s ability to import and produce weapons while allowing humanitarian aid to reach the civilian population through controlled channels—unlike the complete stranglehold faced by German civilians in the 1940s.
As the conflict persists, humanitarian conditions in Gaza have worsened. But the root cause, as in WWII, lies with the aggressor. Hamas has diverted aid, embedded military assets in civilian areas, and prolonged suffering for strategic propaganda purposes.
Just as food shortages and medical crises in Germany escalated due to Allied military pressure and Nazi mismanagement, today’s suffering in Gaza results from Hamas’s decisions and the consequences of its violent actions.
In WWII, Allied bombing campaigns destroyed German infrastructure and cities, leaving civilians in dire conditions. But Nazi Germany was the aggressor and guilty of atrocities. Sympathy for German civilians was tempered by the recognition that the alternative. Nazi victory was morally and strategically unacceptable.
Allowing Hamas to continue in any form is just as unacceptable. Israel must prevail in this struggle and denazify Gaza. They must occupy Gaza until the mission is complete.
Today, moral clarity is too often lost, the compass demagnetized—worse: deliberately reversed. Those who attempt to cast Israel in the role of Nazi Germany ignore the historical and ethical context.
Hamas, like the Nazis, initiated the conflict, targeted civilians, and operated with genocidal intent. That genocidal intent is inherent in Hamas’s ideology. Eliminating Jews is the core of its being. Israel, like the Allies, is responding to ensure its survival and protect its citizens from a genocidal death cult, while attempting to minimize harm to civilians caught in the crossfire.
While humanitarian concern for innocent Gazans is valid and necessary—just as it was for German civilians post-1945—it must not obscure who is responsible for the conflict and the suffering it entails.
Leftists saw things clearly during WWII in the struggle against Nazi Germany and the horrors of Judeocide. The leftist of today is on the other side.
What changed? Decades of postcolonial theory, anti-Western indoctrination, and postmodern nihilism with respect to truth and moral clarity have corrupted a generation of leftists.
The Old Left stood firm against fascism and genocide, recognizing the necessity of Allied force against an enemy bent on annihilation. Islamism is today the enemy bent on annihilation of the Jews—just as it was during WWII when Hajj Amin al-Husaynir met with Hitler to plot the elimination of the Jews in the Arab world.
The New Left operates with a different moral framework—one that sees the West, and by extension Israel, as inherently illegitimate.
The protests and acts of civil disobedience on our streets and college campuses are not about standing up for the oppressed; They’re about dismantling a civilization youth of the West have been taught to loathe. Israel, as the region’s only liberal democracy and an outpost of Enlightenment values, becomes a target not despite its Western character, but because of it.
What we’re witnessing is not principled anti-imperialism—it’s the repackaging of old antisemitism in radical chic. The language of anti-imperialism has become a rhetoric divorced from the principle it pretends to uphold. Like anti-racism and anti-fascism, it has become its opposite.
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