by Mark Tapson
Even on the anniversary of the 10/7 pogrom, the media can't bring itself to honor dead Jews.
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We are at the first anniversary now of one of the most grotesque episodes of ancient savagery wreaked upon the modern world: the October 7 attacks in Israel which left over 1200 innocents dead and many more wounded and/or taken hostage by the subhuman terror organization Hamas. But instead of solemn, worldwide commemoration of this ongoing nightmare, with unified sympathy and support for the Israeli victims and survivors, we are treated to the Left-wing counter-narrative of pro-Hamas, anti-Zionist protests and opinion pieces in the news media demonizing the Jewish state and drowning out the echoing cries of the Israeli dead.
Over the course of the last year, details and evidence of the massacre unfolded in eyewitness accounts, documentaries, and even video and testimony provided by the gleefully sadistic terrorists themselves. Decent people everywhere who dared to look, found themselves staring into the bottomless abyss of Evil.
But the Left-dominated news media are not decent people. They burn with a forever hate for Jews and the Jewish state, and cannot bring themselves to see the terrorism of Hamas as anything less honorable than “resistance” against an oppressor state – a white oppressor, of course, because that’s how the reductive lie of identity politics works: Jews are perceived as oppressors and the so-called Palestinians are perceived as the oppressed, so Jews must be aligned with “white” or “bad” and the Palestinians with “black” or “good.” History, facts, truth, nuance – all of that must be cast aside so as not to undercut the simplistic, neo-Marxist power dynamics through which the woke view the world.
For example: Canadian Naomi Klein, a Guardian columnist and professor of climate justice (of course she is) at the University of British Columbia, published a truly execrable and heartless opinion piece this weekend titled, “How Israel has made trauma a weapon of war.” In it she argued that the state of Israel is exploiting the October 7 pogrom with memorials, films, and exhibitions in order to “stir support for limitless violence” – as if it is Israel, and not the antisemitic Muslim world and its woke Western allies chanting “From the river to the sea,” that is perpetuating what the media love to call “the cycle of Middle East violence.”
Klein complains that Israel is choosing to keep alive the trauma of the October 7 attacks, “an event that has been memorialized continuously since nearly the moment that it occurred.” Presumably she thinks everyone should be over it by now and get on with their lives, including the nearly 100 Israeli hostages who remain in Gaza (fewer than 70 of whom are believed to be alive). Meanwhile the Palestinians she champions still wail about the “trauma” of the Naqba – the “catastrophe” they call the creation of Israel. That was in 1948 and the Palestinians commemorate it every year, but Klein has not, to my knowledge, written a Guardian piece complaining they should be over it by now.
Klein adds that the Jewish state has the nerve to keep the memory of October 7 alive all “while Israel actively produces more grief on an unfathomable scale” in Gaza and Lebanon. She neglects to mention that the reason Israel is in those territories is to root out and eradicate Islamic terror organizations that have caused grief on an unfathomable scale. The culpability of any grief resulting from Israel’s righteous mission can be laid squarely on the doorstep of Hamas and Hezbollah.
Another example: the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), a hopelessly far-Left propaganda outlet so blatantly biased it’s like a parody of itself, published this article over the weekend: “Events held marking one year since start of latest Middle East conflict.” Could there be a murkier headline in terms of exactly what happened a year ago that kicked off “the latest Middle East conflict,” and who exactly was responsible?
Similarly, my colleague Daniel Greenfield notes a few other examples of headlines on the eve of the 10/7 anniversary that reflect “the creeping normalization of Islamic terrorism by the media”:
Thousands join pro-Palestinian rallies around the globe as Oct. 7 anniversary nears – AP
Pro-Palestinian rally in OKC’s Myriad Gardens is planned to mark ‘One Year of Resistance’ – The Oklahoman
Israel-Hamas war: Pro-Palestinian rally held in downtown LA as Oct. 7 anniversary nears – ABC7 Los Angeles
“What is that ‘One Year of Resistance’?” Greenfield asks. “Why are there rallies on the anniversary of the worst Islamic massacre of Jews in centuries?” He observes correctly that the rallies will not be “pro-Palestinian” demonstrations but protests but against Israel for fighting back against Palestinian terrorism, and the mainstream Western media is by and large collaborating by manipulating the narrative surrounding the rallies. It is a narrative designed to obscure the horrific truth of the October 7 attacks – the mass murders, the mass rapes and sexual torture, the burning alive of children and families, and on and on, all of which were celebrated by the Gazans – and to engender sympathy and support for the Palestinians.
Every headline and news story that blurs or twists the truth about Hamas barbarism and Israeli self-defense is a narrative designed to deny and erase Jewish suffering and to blame Israel for the suffering of Palestinians at the hands of their own leadership.
Every time CNN propagandist Christiane Amanpour crafts an October 7 narrative of Israeli aggression and Palestinian innocence, as she did in this interview with an Al Jazeera journalist, she is burying the stories of Israel’s victims and helping to isolate and demonize our tiny ally in the Middle East.
The narrative is not limited to the unholy alliance of Islamists and the Left, regrettably. Purported conservative Candace Owens’ full dive into antisemitic tropes since the October 7 attacks, including the demonstrably idiotic claim that Israel is waging genocide in Gaza, has mainstreamed a surge of Right-wing antisemitism that previously was limited to internet fanboys of the likes of slimy Nick Fuentes.
As this October 7 begins and the worldwide rallies celebrating Hamas’ slaughter of Jews commence, call out the media lies, shout down the genocidal slogans, and stand with the truth.
Follow Mark Tapson at Culture Warrior.
Mark Tapsonis the Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, focusing on
popular culture. He is also the host of an original podcast on
Frontpage, “The Right Take With Mark Tapson”. Follow him on Substack.
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