Palestinians can be schmucks. I know the world doesn’t want to say this. But Palestinians can be schmucks. And idiots. And buffoons. Palestinians can also be bastards. Palestinians can be murderers. Palestinians can be scumbags.
So can people of any nationality, ethnicity or group identity.
So why are people uncomfortable saying Palestinians can be schmucks? Bastards? Scumbags? Or murderers?
Why are Palestinians so dehumanised that the natural flaws possessed by all human beings are deemed absent from Palestinians?
You can feel people clench if you say Palestinians can be disgusting, murderous, racist bastards.
And some Palestinian individuals are disgusting, murderous, racist bastards.
Moreover, they are buttressed by Palestinian institutions that encourage, support and reward murderous bastards.
Last week, a Palestinian who fits the description above brutally murdered two British sisters and their mother because they were Jewish. He shot them to death at point blank range whilst they were on their way to a hike.
This was the act of a pig. There is no justification. It was unambiguously evil. It was simply the work of a racist acting out the antisemitism nourished within Palestinian culture.
Yet there was barely a word of condemnation for this crime. In fact, many non-Jews fought hard to exonerate the murderer and blame the victims instead: Jewish women.
How brainwashed by anti-Israel propaganda are these people that they’ve completely lost their moral compass?
And what nonsense logic makes Palestinians so magical that can’t be held to account for the murder of innocent children?
We live in a world where we’re constantly told we must all do better.
Except, it seems, for the Palestinians.
Apparently they are perfect people.
No criticisms there.
They were made in Willy Wonka’s side hustle: “Willy Wonka’s Darling Angel Factory”.
According to the world they need never reflect or take personal responsibility and we must never think wrong of their crimes.
It’s obviously absurd.
But it’s not by accident.
This is war propaganda pushed by Palestinian extremists who seek the genocide of Jews and the destruction of Israel.
This is much easier to do if the world endorses it.
The propaganda is willingingly embraced by those who know what the game is, and also by those who are useful idiots seduced by such infantilising narratives.
But it is a narrative in service of war. It hasn’t emerged for the purpose of debate.
Dissolving the Palestinians of all responsibility is an act of warfare. It allows them to act with impunity and without restraint. It allows them to commit civil crimes and war crimes. It is a shield to let Palestinians murder Jewish women and children. It allows Palestinians to commit atrocities without the world calling for justice. It allows reasonable defensive actions taken by Israelis to seem insane and cruel.
Those who push the narrative deliberately hide Palestinian crimes and their racist motivations because they’ve taken it upon themselves to become brand managers for the Palestinian cause.
They want to shield the Palestinian brand from any negative publicity.
Or rather - truthful publicity.
They want to lie.
By tinkering with facts, headlines and the subtleties of language - politicians and journalists attempt to wipe the fingerprints off every Palestinian crime scene.
They do all they can to hide, obfuscate and provide alibis for the most bestial, individual acts of Palestinian immorality that are buttressed by institutional support.
In this respect they are participants in a pact of scum.
Let’s put to one side those who knowingly engage in this lie because they’re at war with Israel.
Fine.
They’re doing what they have to do to be evil scumbags.
Let’s address those who actually want peace in the middle east:
You have been played by war mongers.
You have to be brave and oppose them.
You are not serving peace by participating in the lie that Palestinians are somehow the only humans on earth who have no responsibility.
You are not serving conflict resolution.
You are not serving truth.
You are not serving a solution.
Palestinian bigotry - largely of an Islamic persuasion - is not a by-product of the conflict - it is a contributing cause. It must be condemned without embarrassment if you seek peace.
Palestinian violence against Jews is not a by-product of the conflict - it is a contributing cause. It must be condemned without inhibition if you seek peace.
Palestinian society is not antisemitic because there is a conflict. There is a conflict because Palestinian society is antisemitic. It must be challenged without qualification if you seek peace.
And Palestinians don’t hate Jews because there is Israel. They hate Israel because it’s Jewish. This must be denounced without delay if you seek peace.
Until you engage with the above you have nothing to offer the situation.
Some things are just wrong. Let’s start with the murder of two Jewish sisters and their mother. Do not let yourself be played by warmongers who want you to ignore every moral instinct you have so that you become a person who excuses or legitimises the murder of children. Don’t let them make you into that person. You have one life. Do not become a person who thinks there are circumstances in which it’s permissable to murder Jewish women.
Step up. Be brave. From now on try this impulse:
When Palestinians engage in acts of terrorism, instead of thinking you have to protect their “brand” in order to retain their public support - call out their violence without restraint - because Palestinian violence is a CAUSE of the conflict - and if you want the conflict to end for Palestinians - you must stop them doing what perpetuates it.
It’s also the right thing to do.
Attempting to bestow upon Palestinians a kind of moral infallibility is wrong and leads to a situation where terrible acts of abuse can take place. If it’s wrong to conceal child sex abuse in a religious organisation - or to cover up institutional racism within a police force - then it’s wrong to cover up institutionalised racism and murder within Palestinian society. It has to be exposed and condemned. Otherwise it leads to two sisters and their mother being murdered in cold blood. Who wins from that? No one.
Palestinians have responsibility to stop this.
And so do you.