The Left's Wicked Alliance with Hamas-Isis

October 7th was the day the mask of Woke ideology fell. No longer could they hide behind their guise of compassion for the weak and the victimized.

Waking up to missile sirens isn’t new. But when the sirens sounded at 6:30am on that Saturday morning, jolting my husband and I out of bed and into our bomb shelter, he turned to me and said, “there’s going to be a war.” Missile sirens in Tel-Aviv every year or so had become commonplace, typically leading to the usual tit-for-tat cycle, without much further escalation. So I was surprised by his premonition.

As my husband went back to sleep for another hour, I went about my daily morning routine. Sitting on the balcony, enjoying my morning coffee and reading a book, I heard the familiar booms of missile interceptions by the Iron Dome in the distance - oblivious to the events that were unfolding just an hour drive South of where I sat. This was just another air strike, I thought. We had become so accustomed to being terrorized in this way that it was now routine. If another missile was headed for Tel-Aviv, the siren would sound, and I would go to the bomb shelter. For now, I would enjoy the October morning air.

An hour later, my husband emerged from the bedroom, a look of utter shock on his face. “Do you know what’s happening in the country right now?” he said. His horrified expression said it all - his premonition was coming true. He packed a bag, got his gun out of the safe, and drove down South.

On the Black Saturday of October 7th, during the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, over 2000 Hamas-ISIS terrorists infiltrated the Israeli border, committing the most heinous genocide against the Jewish people since the Holocaust. They targeted civilians - among them babies, children, women, men, and the elderly - and slaughtered and mutilated them in the most unthinkable ways. The horror that unfolded was unimaginable. Over 200 innocent civilians were taken hostage by the Hamas terrorists, who were promised $10,000 and an apartment for every hostage they abducted.

The terror, shock, and profound grief that followed is difficult to put into words. The loss of life was overwhelming; Israel being such a small country meant that everyone knew someone who perished in the massacre.

As the days passed, IDF forces and police battled the Hamas-ISIS terrorists, freeing civilians being held hostage in their own homes and rescuing survivors who were able to escape from the Nova music festival. Ordinary citizens, some of them well into their 60s, drove down to the front lines with nothing but their personal sidearms to rescue their loved ones.

While the battles raged and the innocent dead were still being counted, the tragedy took an even darker turn as a wave of anti-Semitic rallies swept across the world, the largest that had been seen since the 20th century. Celebratory sweets were handed out in all major cities from Gaza to San Francisco. Well before any retaliation on Israel’s part, these mass celebrations reveled in the murder of innocent Jews, condemning Israel as a colonial apartheid state, praising decolonization by any means, and chanting anti-semitic, genocidal slogans. Meanwhile, in Israel, the painful process of finding the dead bodies of our family and friends was nowhere near complete.

Western countries were caught dumbfounded, that in the wake of these ungodly atrocities, hundreds of thousands of Muslim immigrants - the same immigrants who enjoy the luxuries and conveniences of Western society and culture - were rejoicing at the death of innocents, fervently chanting “Alla Wakbar” through the streets of London, Paris, and Berlin. “Gas the Jews” was even echoed outside the Sydney Opera House.

What’s more, some of these protests and rallies emerged from elite Western academic institutions. Student organizations at prestigious universities like Harvard, NYU, Columbia, and Stanford issued statements that endorsed violence against Israel and pledged allegiance to Palestinian and Hamas causes alike.

And this is our subject matter. How elite academic institutions, whose fundamental task is to foster critical thinking in the next generation, have poisoned the minds of their students, entangling them in an ideology that evidently can’t distinguish right from wrong - even when it’s smacked by evil in the face. This was the day the mask of Woke ideology fell. No longer could they hide behind their guise of compassion for the weak and the victimized.

Those who identify themselves as Woke, among them gender-activists, feminists, and Black Lives Matters champions, failed to condemn the perpetrators of the horrific genocidal acts of Oct. 7th and to show any measure of support for the victims. What happened to “believe all victims”? Instead, they rejoiced in the “decolonization” of the “Israeli oppressors” and celebrated the murder, mutilation, and mass rape of innocent civilians. One Cornell professor was even exhilarated. The unprovoked massacre of the Hamas-ISIS terrorists was seen as a legitimate response to 75 years of a fictitious Israeli occupation in the Gaza strip.

What’s even more concerning is that the designated adults in the room - the administrators of these institutions - failed miserably to put a stop to the protests and to discipline the student organizations for spewing hate speech, misinformation, anti-semitism, and unabashed support for a murderous terrorist organization.

The question is, how can an ideology that claims to care for the marginalized and dispossessed turn a blind eye to such atrocities? Please allow me to explain.

In a nutshell, Woke ideology is the 21st century monster-child of Marxism, infused with a killer dose of postmodernism and moral relativism. Marxism has always been and always will be a doctrine of bloody revolution. If you meet anyone who argues otherwise, you can be sure that they would be perfectly willing to sacrifice your life if it theoretically meant inching them closer to their fanatic utopia of equality of outcome.

Through the prism of Marxism, and Wokeism by extension, the world is divided into oppressors and the oppressed. The powerful and the weak. (Or the bourgeois and proletariat to borrow Marx’s original formulation). Anyone possessing power, success, or wealth must have obtained these through exploitation, while the dispossessed are automatically branded as “victims” of these exploitations and of defects of the social system in which they are embedded.

A crucial point is that this worldview holds the oppressed in moral superiority - no matter what. No questions are asked of how the victims reached their position. Inequality and poverty are seen as a consequence of the system being rigged against the victim, blaming systemic prejudices and ever-present oppressive forces.

With one fell swoop, this perspective undermines the values of hard work, discipline, and personal responsibility upon which Western societies are built. In their place, it constructs a value system that favors victimhood over success, incentivizing its followers to wear weakness as a badge of honor. In a world where victims are exalted and the successful are branded as dictators - why would anyone want to be excellent? And furthermore, why would anyone want to go through the awful trouble of learning how to think critically?

Through such a lens, Israel’s booming industry and direct pipeline to Silicon valley is nothing but an amoral exploitation of the Palestinian people. The Jewish people, despite all odds stacked against them, have managed to build a flourishing Western paradise amid hostile enemies through sheer perseverance and ingenuity. Yet to a worldview that subverts Western values and replaces them with a worship of the underdog - the feats of Israel are nothing more than the exploitations of a cruel tyrant and the products of colonial oppression.

As Israel began to retaliate, targeting Hamas headquarters and infrastructure within the Gaza strip, a shift was observed among previously silent Woke activists. They had suddenly found their voices - enough to express indignation at the loss of Palestinian lives. And those who had previously celebrated Israeli deaths now were heard twice as loud. This raises a fundamental question: how can people equate the unprovoked murder, mutilation, and mass rape of innocent Israeli civilians in their own homes by Hamas-ISIS terrorists with a nation defending itself by targeting terrorist infrastructure?

The killer doses of postmodernism and moral relativism are to blame. The postmodern ethos is one of subjectivism, where everything is open for interpretation and all interpretations are valid, thus undermining the belief in objective reality. If everything is open for subjective interpretation, then so are moral judgments. The varying moral codes of different societies are all deemed equally valid in keeping with the Woke fashion of diversity and inclusivity. All are welcome - even anti-semitic, genocidal terrorists.

As a result, Woke ideology has rendered the Left’s intellectual elite and their disciples completely unable to draw a line in the sand between good and evil, even in the wake of live-streamed genocide. Morality is judged based on body count, and the fact that Hamas uses the Palestinian civilians as human shields is conveniently disregarded.

What’s more concerning and perplexing is how the Hamas-ISIS terrorists have been framed as freedom-fighters. Across Western campuses, an image of a paraglider was paraded in Pro-Palestinian rallies as a symbol of justified resistance. The same paragliders who landed in the middle of a music festival and raped young girls next to their friends’ dead bodies.

To complete the picture of the Woke’s moral decay, we need to understand how these acts are able to be morally justified.

In his book "The Conflict of Visions," Thomas Sowell explains the fundamental axioms that are at the root of two diametrically opposed ways of viewing human nature and the world itself, which he coins the "constrained" and "unconstrained" visions. Visions shape how we see the world, as well as our logic and values as a consequence.

While the constrained vision focuses on processes and building beneficial incentive systems, while keeping the limitations of human nature in mind, the unconstrained vision focuses on results, seeking to artificially bend reality to achieve the desired outcomes.

And here is the crux of the matter. The unconstrained vision believes that human nature, and by extension the human world, can be shaped and morphed into the utopia of the intellectual elite’s wet dream. And if such a utopia is possible - it is morally justified to bring it into existence by any means necessary.

In the wake of this tragedy, many of us have scratched our heads in bewilderment at the moral failing of the Western Left. I hope that this message helps end this bewilderment.

The Woke philosophy, in one breath, demands that the underdog be sided with no matter what and the utopia be ushered in by any means necessary, and these are the fundamental axioms at the heart of the Left’s wicked alliance with the Hamas-ISIS death cult. What is certain, is that their mask of compassion has fallen and their moral rot has been exposed. If the West does not wake up from this ideological spell, the Western values upon which our countries have been built are threatened to degenerate into an Ayn Randian nightmare.