Biden’s presidency should be debated on its merits, without inserting Israel into every critique of Western leadership.
Biden’s presidency should be debated on its merits, without inserting Israel into every critique of Western leadership, writes Tim Flack.Then-president of the United States, Joe Biden, waves as he steps off Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on 4 November 2024 in Washington, DC. Image: Brendan Smialowski/AFP, is a masterclass in distortion, but perhaps its most egregious misstep is the predictable, tired inclusion of Israel.
The sheer laziness of this argument is baffling when one considers that Arab Israelis serve in parliament, on the Supreme Court, and in high-ranking positions within Israeli society. That is not apartheid, it is coexistence, something that does not exist in most of the countries that surround Israel.
The intentional erasure of Hamas’ war crimes from this discussion is not an accident; it is a strategic omission meant to reinforce a one-sided victim narrative. If Israel truly sought genocide, why has the Palestinian population increased exponentially over the last few decades? The numbers alone expose the intellectual dishonesty of the claim.There is a broader phenomenon at play here: the West’s obsessive focus on Israel, while turning a blind eye to actual human rights catastrophes.
The manipulation of Holocaust memory for cheap political points should be called out for what it is, an insult to the victims of real genocides and a disgraceful distortion of history. Need I remind you that holocaust inversion is a disgusting form of internationally recognised antisemitism.It is no coincidence that the anti-Israel narrative relies so heavily on distorting history.
In reality, Zionism is no different than any other self-determination movement, except that it is uniquely vilified. No one condemns the existence of France as a state for the French, or Japan as a state for the Japanese. Yet, the Jewish people seeking security in their ancestral homeland is somehow an affront to morality. Kurds for Kurdistan is widely accepted, Scots for Scotland is a celebrated idea, yet somehow, Jews for Israel is treated as an aberration.
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