We could add more examples. But the problem should be clear by now: Too many Western intellectuals are betraying the first obligation of their professions: to at least strive to be honest. The almost compulsive urge to weaponize themselves, their positions, and reputations against Russia has overcome any respect for facts and consistent standards. That alone is a sad picture of ethical decline. But their response – or often complete failure to respond – to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, however, is so much worse again. It is at that point – that is now – that their blatant disregard for the Palestinian victims and their needs and rights reveals them not only as biased careerists and ideologues, but as bereft of conscience and compassion." Well said!
The facts are clear & unambiguous. The criminal self serving elitist philosophy of the western leaderships led by the US/UK & unquestionably followed their vassals is evident.
It will not be them that will put right the imbalance nor their constituents, it will be the past & current victim states and the Humanity that stands with them.
As we saw in the last past years, the "academics" are inclined to be good lap dogs of their economical sponsors, not being critics of the official narratives, and trying hard to develop their carriere without constrains of true or ethics or moral issues. As you said, "weaponizing themselfs", at the service of the power ones. It is good to keep some record of their positions now, in the more needed moment of voices to shout loud the unjustice of unjustices: an ongoing Genocide in Gaza ... Later for sure, they will change theirr skins, being, as their always try, in the right side of ... power.
Yes it is important to state that it is the Israeli apartheid state that must be destroyed, not the Jewish people of Israel. While this must be the goal, how possible will that be without significant armed conflict? This is a fundamental question given the reaction of the vast majority of Jewish Israelis to the genocide in Gaza in all of its horrible manifestations. They approve of these actions enthusiastically as TikTok and other social media platforms reveal. The Israelis blocking humanitarian aid trucks from entering Gaza are partying while they do it. A denouement anything like that which ended South African apartheid seems highly unlikely at this point. Not to mention that Netanyahu and his fellow lunatics possess nuclear weapons. The West has put all of us in yet another seemingly intractable mess.
Thank you for another honest and insightful essay. But I cannot resist taking a swipe in passing at the Guardian:
"The hypocrisy of the US-led West [...] is so flagrant that even The Guardian has noticed." Very true, but in typical Guardian style their commentary compares Gaza and Ukraine only on the basis of complete lies about Russia in Ukraine. Using the usual Western lies the Guardian falls over itself to claim Russia is committing genocide, so it can then point out the West is ignoring similarities in Gaza to such Russian evil in Ukraine. At no point do they mention that a major part of the West's hypocrisy is driven precisely by the base dishonesty of propaganda such as the Guardian's own commentary.
Read this on RT and subscribed to your Substack afterwards. I have also stressed similar, on how the Palestinian case for armed struggle is so much stronger, and yet how obviously none of those western liberals have called for support to arm Palestine.
Thank you for this essay..... the hypocrisy we are seeing is so blatant - pitiful and tragic at the same time. They demean all of us with their transparent litany of ongoing lies. Tragic because words have power...and some moronic people still believe these powers that shouldn’t be. The situation in Palestine is enough to induce feelings of losing our minds - it has become so monumentally horrific. It is beyond all description.... undiluted evil being wielded by the Zionist entity, supported by Israhell’s loathsome citizens, against the innocent courageous spirited and long suffering indigenous people - the rightful owners of the land of Palestine.
We could add more examples. But the problem should be clear by now: Too many Western intellectuals are betraying the first obligation of their professions: to at least strive to be honest. The almost compulsive urge to weaponize themselves, their positions, and reputations against Russia has overcome any respect for facts and consistent standards. That alone is a sad picture of ethical decline. But their response – or often complete failure to respond – to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, however, is so much worse again. It is at that point – that is now – that their blatant disregard for the Palestinian victims and their needs and rights reveals them not only as biased careerists and ideologues, but as bereft of conscience and compassion." Well said!
The facts are clear & unambiguous. The criminal self serving elitist philosophy of the western leaderships led by the US/UK & unquestionably followed their vassals is evident.
It will not be them that will put right the imbalance nor their constituents, it will be the past & current victim states and the Humanity that stands with them.
As we saw in the last past years, the "academics" are inclined to be good lap dogs of their economical sponsors, not being critics of the official narratives, and trying hard to develop their carriere without constrains of true or ethics or moral issues. As you said, "weaponizing themselfs", at the service of the power ones. It is good to keep some record of their positions now, in the more needed moment of voices to shout loud the unjustice of unjustices: an ongoing Genocide in Gaza ... Later for sure, they will change theirr skins, being, as their always try, in the right side of ... power.
Yes it is important to state that it is the Israeli apartheid state that must be destroyed, not the Jewish people of Israel. While this must be the goal, how possible will that be without significant armed conflict? This is a fundamental question given the reaction of the vast majority of Jewish Israelis to the genocide in Gaza in all of its horrible manifestations. They approve of these actions enthusiastically as TikTok and other social media platforms reveal. The Israelis blocking humanitarian aid trucks from entering Gaza are partying while they do it. A denouement anything like that which ended South African apartheid seems highly unlikely at this point. Not to mention that Netanyahu and his fellow lunatics possess nuclear weapons. The West has put all of us in yet another seemingly intractable mess.
Thank you for another honest and insightful essay. But I cannot resist taking a swipe in passing at the Guardian:
"The hypocrisy of the US-led West [...] is so flagrant that even The Guardian has noticed." Very true, but in typical Guardian style their commentary compares Gaza and Ukraine only on the basis of complete lies about Russia in Ukraine. Using the usual Western lies the Guardian falls over itself to claim Russia is committing genocide, so it can then point out the West is ignoring similarities in Gaza to such Russian evil in Ukraine. At no point do they mention that a major part of the West's hypocrisy is driven precisely by the base dishonesty of propaganda such as the Guardian's own commentary.
Read this on RT and subscribed to your Substack afterwards. I have also stressed similar, on how the Palestinian case for armed struggle is so much stronger, and yet how obviously none of those western liberals have called for support to arm Palestine.
Thank you for this essay..... the hypocrisy we are seeing is so blatant - pitiful and tragic at the same time. They demean all of us with their transparent litany of ongoing lies. Tragic because words have power...and some moronic people still believe these powers that shouldn’t be. The situation in Palestine is enough to induce feelings of losing our minds - it has become so monumentally horrific. It is beyond all description.... undiluted evil being wielded by the Zionist entity, supported by Israhell’s loathsome citizens, against the innocent courageous spirited and long suffering indigenous people - the rightful owners of the land of Palestine.