The Observer (a Guardian sister site) published an editorial that serves as a perfect illustration of the media group’s failure, even in the aftermath of the Oct. 7th massacre, the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust, to call out the annihilationist antisemitism of Hamas – as well as their Palestinian and Western supporters.
The Jan. 18th editorial is headlined “The Observer View on the Gaza ceasefire: It’s time for both sides to think again”, a title inspired by the penultimate paragraph:
As this fragile process gets under way, the parties to the conflict should use the pause for much-needed reflection. Hamas and its supporters must recognise that the 7 October atrocities produced even greater, counter-productive violence against other defenceless civilians – in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. Israelis and their leaders must recognise that the disproportionate, illegal use of force has trashed the country’s reputation, brought accusations of war crimes and genocide, and raised the issue of Palestinian statehood to the top of the global agenda. Both sides must accept the obvious: violence does not work.
So, the problem, according to editors, with the mass murder, rape, torture, mutilation amd kidnapping of men, women and children by Hamas and other terror groups – a pogrom that included hundreds of Gaza civilians crossing the border to loot and terrorise Israeli communities – was merely that it was “counter-productive”, not that it was among the most barbaric acts of antisemitic evil in Jewish history.
Of course, acknowledging the Jew hatred that fueled the orgy of sadistic violence 15 months ago would require coming to terms with the endemic antisemitism within Palestinian society, a hatred so ingrained (in both the West Bank and Gaza) that, in November, 2023, a poll showed that 75% of Palestinians supported the Oct. 7th massacre.
Further, a new ADL global survey of 103 nations or territories showed – consistent with polls dating going back many years – that the Palestinians are literally the most antisemitic people in the world.
To provide a sense of how deep the problem of classic antisemitism is within Palestinians society, here are some of the poll’s results:
- 92% of Palestinians believe that Jews are responsible for most of the world’s wars.
- 92% of Palestinians believe Jews have too much control over global affairs.
- 91% of Palestinians believe that Jews have too much control over the media.
- 90% of Palestinian believe that Jews have too much control over the government.
- 94% of Palestinians believe that people hate Jews because of the way Jews behave.
As we argued recently, the Guardian, loathe to reconsider their fanatical support for the Palestinian cause, one guided by an almost religious fervor, began, mere days after the massacre, to gaslight Jews and abuse the memory of that horrific day by rewriting the story of Oct. 7th from one rightly understood as most lethal manifestation of the world’s oldest hatred since the Shoah, to a propagandistic tale about the Jewish state’s “disproportionate” and “genocidal” military response to that jihadist mass atrocity.
The fact that the Guardian simply can not, even in the aftermath of Oct. 7th, say the words “Palestinian antisemitism” is another example of the moral rot at the institution that we’ve been documenting for the last fifteen years.