OPINION:
Earlier this week, the United Nations Human Rights Council held a moment of silence to recognize the loss of life in Israel at the hands of terrorist Hamas — oops, nope. No, it didn’t.
“On Monday, afternoon, the @UN Human Rights Council observed a moment of silence for the loss of innocent lives in the occupied Palestinian territory and elsewhere,” the UNHRC posted on social media site X.
That’s like a mass murderer entering a home and bludgeoning to death the men, raping the women and beheading the little babies and in the process, getting a cut on the finger — and then being treated as the victim.
“Children found ‘butchered’ in Israeli kibbutz, IDF says,” CNN reported.
“Hamas kills 40 babies and children — beheading some of them — at Israeli kibbutz: report,” the New York Post wrote.
This is not a resistance movement, as leftists would like to believe. This is murderous, barbaric, bloody, disgusting, antisemitic behavior, the type and stuff of which only the Nazis would applaud.
But from the UNHRC — this: “On behalf of the OIC Member States, we express our deep concerns over the loss of innocent lives in the occupied Palestinian territory and elsewhere,” said Zaman Mehdi, an ambassador of Pakistan to the United Nations.
“Regrettably,” Mehdi went on, “this whole huge loss of lives and unabated violence is a sad reminder of more than seven decades of illegal foreign occupation, aggression and disrespect for the international law.”
He then called for a “just two-state solution on the borders of June 4, 1967, with East Jerusalem as the capital of the state of Palestine.”
Umm.
If Palestinian terrorists from Israel’s neighboring nations hadn’t started launching attacks against Israel in 1967, then Israel wouldn’t have taken retaliatory and preemptive strikes against its neighbors; and Egypt wouldn’t have called on the United Nations Emergency Force to withdraw its protective presence from Israel’s border; and Israel wouldn’t have engaged in the Six-Day War against Egypt, Jordan, Syria and enemies in occupied territories like the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem; and Israel wouldn’t have won that Six-Day War in, well, six days.
And Israel wouldn’t have claimed those territories — now cried by Palestinian terrorists and their enablers as their own.
But that’s what happens when you start a war and lose the war you started: You risk losing land and resources and lives and land and equipment and land.
But to whine about it after is the ultimate in sour grapes.
Or, in the case of the UNHRC’s Mehdi — and the UNHRC, which supported Mehdi’s statements on social media — it’s the ultimate in antisemitism.
It’s no secret that Israel’s enemies aren’t just engaged in a battle for land or resources, but rather an evil quest to wipe out the Jewish nation and with it, all the Jews both in Israel and elsewhere. They hate the race. They hate the people. Their hatred is so deep that they see terrorism against the Jewish state and people as utterly justified.
“Ilhan Omar condemns Israel’s military response to Hamas, says ‘solution’ is ‘negotiated peace,’” Fox News wrote in a headline, about the congressional member’s recent remarks that went like this: “Just as we honor the humanity of the hundreds of innocent Israeli civilians and 9 [then] Americans who were killed this weekend, we must honor the humanity of the innocent Palestinian civilians who have been killed and whose lives are upended.”
Terrorists aren’t due honor.
Moral equivalencies must not be drawn between the innocent and the guilty — particularly when the guilty are murderous at heart and bent on killing women, children and babies and holding hostage women to rape and use as bargaining chips for Joe Biden to send more money, more money, more money.
Black Lives Matter chapters stand with Palestinians. Harvard University groups stand with Palestinians. Protesters in the streets of New York City stand with Palestinians. They blame Israel for Hamas; they say Israel brought the terror on Israel. This is full-blown anti-Semitism on display.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the Squad member from Michigan, and another Palestinian terror apologist, said: “I grieve the Palestinian and Israeli lives lost. The path to peace must include lifting the blockade and ending the occupation and dismantling the apartheid system that creates the suffocating, dehumanizing conditions that could lead to resistance. As long as [America] provides billions in unconditional funding to support the apartheid government [Israel], this heartbreaking cycle of violence will continue.”
That should be seen as a threat, not a show of compassion or concern.
That’s exactly what the terrorists promise: continued terror — with the end game of obliteration of the Jews.
Even leftists are awakening to the antisemitism of their own ideological camp.
“We spent a lot of time during the Trump years looking at antisemitism on the right,” said CNN host Jake Tapper, in a recent interview. “These last few days have been a real eye-opening period for a lot of people, a lot of Democrats and a lot of progressives in terms of antisemitism on the left.”
It’s always been there.
For those without axes to grind and political ambitions to achieve and personal agendas to advance, the antisemitism of the left, including the Democratic Party, has always been a glaring, disgusting presence. It’s too bad it takes a horrific Hamas terror strike to pry open the eyes of the blind.
• Cheryl Chumley can be reached at cchumley@washingtontimes.com or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast “Bold and Blunt” by clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by clicking HERE. Her latest book, “Lockdown: The Socialist Plan To Take Away Your Freedom,” is available by clicking HERE or clicking HERE or CLICKING HERE.
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