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The Selective Outrage and Hypocrisy of Antisemitism

Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video from Daily Signal Senior Contributor Victor Davis Hanson. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more of his videos.

Hello, this is Victor Davis Hanson for the Daily Signal.  

A lot of people who oppose Israel resent people who suggest they might be antisemitic, and that’s a legitimate criticism. They’re not necessarily synonymous, but when people start talking about Jewish people in a certain fashion, a conspiratorial fashion that, for example, a small country of 10 million can influence 340 million in America and tell Donald Trump what to do, or that a small cabal of Jews run a particular industry, then you start to get worrisome. 

But one of the best indicators of antisemitism is selectivity, selective outrage. What do I mean by that? We talked about Israel after Oct. 7. Remember that 1,200 Israelis were butchered, raped, mutilated in medieval fashion. Israel did not go into Gaza on the ground right away. For three weeks, not until Oct. 27, did it enter Gaza. 

And what was it supposed to do? Go to the U.N., past China and Russia on the Security Council? China has a million Uyghurs in camps. Russia is waging a genocidal war in Ukraine. And ask them to be fair? Go to NATO or the EU and ask the Spanish premier, Mr. [Pedro] Sanchez, to negotiate with Hamas? 

What were they supposed to do? What were they supposed to reply to when Hamas would not give up the perpetrators, would not give up the 251 hostages, descended into a labyrinth of tunnels, and the entries and exits were beneath churches, mosques, and schools? 

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What were they to do? What would anybody do? What would the United States do? The United States is 34 times larger than Israel is. Thirty-four times larger. So what would we do? Well, if 6,000 Hamas people went into Israel, what would happen if 200,000 people came into the United States across the border, let’s say from Sinaloa, the cartels? 

And instead of butchering 1,200, let’s say in American terms, 34 times larger, they butchered 40,000 Americans. That would be a fair comparison. And then they took back 8,000, not 251........

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