Thread by @HusseinAboubak

A 14-year-old Palestinian girl just stabbed a Jewish woman who was pushing a stroller and walking her children to school. Can critical theory and institutional racism help you understand this? Can apartheid and social justice explain it without entangling us is delusional /1

abstractions? For a Westerner whose mind is well molded in modern liberal habits of mind, there is no way to understand this weird mystifying incident. Reporters will write entire essays about this, academics will write papers without a single mention of "antisemitism," a word /2

that easily cuts through the matter and explains it. The most obvious characteristic of such terrorist attacks is that they are committed by children, and their childhood exposes the true essence of the matter, simple faith in the villainy of Jews as Jews. In antisemitic /3

imagination the difference between being an IDF guard and a mother pushing a stroller is a mere delusion. A Jew is a Jew and evil nature is Jewish nature. Personal variations are mere formalities. This is what such acts of Palestinian childhood truly expose through the lies /4

of the activists and the apologists and the intellectuals. I don't hate that little girl. I was once exactly like her, a 14-year-old child who believes that Jews, babies, and adults, old and young, are nothing but absolute evil. I'm outraged though. I'm outraged at everyone /5

who for decades has been ignoring this tragic reality of the prevalence of antisemitism as a religious and existential world view in the Middle East. Not just ignoring, but often deliberately obfuscating this fact and working really hard to prevent people from seeing it. /6

My journey to deal with this led me everywhere, to American political institutions, to academic institutions, media institutions. I talked to politicians, professors, analysts, experts, etc. "They don't really believe this." They would just dismiss it all with a clever smile. /7

"It's all rhetoric and ideological fluff.. antisemitism doesn't determine the outcome." I was told by the carrying cardmembers of the American liberal elites. Go tell that to that poor Jewish woman and her children. But what is even worse, I eventually discovered what those /8

experts say so, it is because they themselves don't believe in anything anymore. American liberalism became a preposterous philisitnic phariseeism of a nation of technicians who believe in nothing but means and techniques. They don't believe the Iranians or the Palestinians /9

really believe in what they say they believe because they personally don't believe in what they say they believe. It's all mere projection, all but externalization. No wonder liberalism is being eaten up whole by progressive and socialist predators. If this is the end of /10

liberalism, lower case, or upper case, then count me as an anti-liberal. I will stand instead with this Jewish mother and her children, and I will stand with the Palestinian children who are being indoctrinated into hatred and death.