From: fedora@fea.st
On Tue, 6 Jan 2026 21:53:46 +0000, Julian
wrote:
>Finally, the left has found a ‘kidnap victim’ it cares about. Having
>spent more than two years making excuses for Hamas’s savage seizing of
>251 Israelis, having violently torn down posters of those stolen Jews,
>now the activist class has suddenly decided that abduction is bad after
>all. Why? Because a dictator they admire, Nicolas Maduro, has been
>abducted by the United States.
It has nothing to do with admiring a dictator. But I do understand
that you would see it that way. Sorry to hear about your cracked
windshield.
>What do we even say about people who get more agitated by the seizing of
>a 63-year-old corrupt ruler than they do by the abduction of a
>nine-month-old Jew? That was Kfir Bibas, kidnapped along with his mother
>and his four-year-old brother during Hamas’s carnival of fascist
>violence on 7 October 2023. They were later murdered. There is more fury
>in progressive circles over Trump’s nabbing of Maduro than there was
>over Hamas’s racist snatching of a literal baby.
>
>In the US, leftists have hit the streets to chant ‘Free Maduro’. They
>furiously decry his ‘criminal abduction’. The British left is a hotbed
>of purple-prose anger over Trump’s ‘illegal’ abduction of a foreign
>leader. A huge question dangles precariously over every one of these
>ostentatious weepers for Maduro: where were you when Hamas criminally
>intruded into the Jewish State and kidnapped grandmothers, mothers,
>children? People who, unlike Maduro, were entirely innocent?
>
>I’ll tell you where they were: they were attending protests that
>celebrated this mass seizure of Jews as an act of ‘resistance’. They
>were turning a blind eye as mobs of Jew-haters scrawled the word
>‘coloniser’ across the faces of the kidnapped on posters in London,
>Berlin and New York. They were writing haughty thinkpieces branding the
>Jews of the Holy Land as ‘settler colonial’ usurpers of the ‘land of
>Palestine’. Shorter version: none of them are innocent.
>
>The hypocrisy of the Maduro fanclub has really been brought home by the
>response of Hamas itself. It has slammed America’s ‘abduction’ of
>Maduro, calling it a ‘grave violation of international law’. Where to
>begin? These Nazi-lite kidnappers of more than 200 Jews really think
>they can lecture others about the immorality of cross-border abduction?
>These are hitherto untapped levels of cant. At least the US will treat
>Maduro with dignity, rather than starving and torturing him in an
>underground den.
>
>Iran, too, has condemned the ‘illegal’ kidnapping of Maduro. Listen, if
>you send proxy armies of anti-Semites to kidnap Jews, and lock up young
>women for the crime of yearning for freedom, nobody wants to hear your
>thoughts on ‘criminal aggression’. China is calling on the US to free
>Maduro. How about you free the Uyghur people first from the iron fist of
>your ruthless ‘re-education’?
>
>We are witnessing an orgy of hypocrisy of the like the world hasn’t seen
>in a long time. For more than two years our leafy universities were
>overrun by plummy activists justifying Hamas’s criminal invasion of
>Israel and seizure of its civilians. ‘Glory to our martyrs’, they said
>at George Washington University. ‘Globalise the intifada’, mobs chanted,
>because they wanted more of it: more assaults on Israel, more punishment
>for those ‘settler-colonialist’ scum.
>
>This Israelophobic hysteria was an expressly lawless, anti-sovereignty
>and even pro-abduction movement. Excuses were made for Hamas’s violation
>of Israeli sovereignty. The entire idea of Jewish sovereignty was
>rubbished. ‘From the river to the sea’, millions chanted, advertising
>their bigoted belief that the Jewish state should be erased. These same
>people now think they can bash America for briefly intruding into
>Venezuela? Not on my watch.
>
>There is much talk of a ‘dangerous precedent’ being set by Trump’s
>actions in Venezuela. I would argue that the truly reckless precedent
>was set in the aftermath of 7 October, when vast swathes of the West’s
>intellectuals, activists, educators and students made clear their belief
>that violently violating sovereignty and abducting foreigners is
>sometimes justified. They revelled in the lawless savagery of Iran’s
>racist proxies and now bemoan Trump’s alleged law-breaking.
>
>I remember being in numerous media discussions about 7 October where the
>other person would flamboyantly refuse to condemn Hamas. ‘I will not
>play that media game’, they’d say. But it wasn’t a game. All we were
>saying in the wake of that worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust
>is that good people should reassert the value of human life, the rights
>of Jewish sovereignty and the importance of non-aggression across
>borders. And yet many failed to do that. They flat-out refused to.
>
>To my mind, these people sacrificed their right to an opinion on issues
>of war and sovereignty. They sacrificed it at the altar of their
>unhinged loathing for the Jewish nation. Let’s put it like this: if you
>spent two-and-a-half years agitating for the destruction of the
>sovereign Jewish state, then we couldn’t give a toss what you think
>about America’s two-and-a-half hours inside Venezuela.
>
>
>Brendan O’Neill
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