They Won’t Say It’s Antisemitism — Because Then They’d Have to Care

The West’s Favorite Hobby: Apologizing for Evil So It Can Sleep at Night...

The Cost of Unity—and the West’s Rorschach Test

Two different events, two different continents, one ugly truth: we live in an era where moral clarity is considered offensive.

Manchester: Platitudes on Tap

On October 2nd, outside a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur, a Syrian-born Brit named Jihad Al-Shamie (you can’t make this up) plowed his car into pedestrians, then hopped out and stabbed two Jewish men to death before police put him down. In our country the Liberals would be screaming and yelling that the police killed him and deprived his of his “Civil Rights.” My honest reaction to that” KILL THE BASTARD!

This should have been simple: call it what it was, an antisemitic terrorist attack on Jews during their holiest day. But no, the geniuses at the “Optimistic Alliance” a Muslim-Jewish interfaith group, sprinted to the microphone and coughed up this gem:

“We unequivocally condemn antisemitism and all forms of hatred.”

“All forms of hatred.” Really? Jews are bleeding on the pavement, and the best you can do is toss in a catch-all for mean tweets and dirty looks? That’s not clarity; that’s a diversity workshop slogan. It’s the “thoughts and prayers” of interfaith politics.

The comments section torched them instantly. People called it out as the wet noodle it was: “Stop with the ‘all hatred’ crap.” “Do Muslims ever condemn their own extremists?” “Where are the Muslims standing with Jews here?” Spoiler: they weren’t there. Not in the comments. Not in the streets. Not anywhere.

The truth is, if your solidarity statement reads like it was drafted by a corporate HR department, you’re not building unity—you’re laundering cowardice.

Photo by Kevin Schmid on Unsplash

October 7: Two Years Later, Still No Lessons Learned

Now, zoom out. Five days later, Jewish communities around the world marked two years since the October 7 Hamas massacre in Israel. Families of hostages marched in Paris. A new documentary dropped on Amazon. Israel’s Diaspora Ministry released the “October 7 Files”—documents showing the attack wasn’t some chaotic outburst. It was meticulously planned. Blueprints for slaughter.

You’d think by now the West would have learned something. But no. On U.S. and European campuses, students still march for “resistance.” Professors nod along as if Hamas is some liberation movement instead of a death cult.

Let’s be honest: “resistance” is the bougie way of saying “rape, fire, beheading.” And yet these wannabe revolutionaries in skinny jeans and Che Guevara hoodies cheer it on, because their professors have spent years teaching them that every Jew with a roof over their head is an “occupier.”

Meanwhile, university administrators fall back on the same coward’s phrase the Manchester crew used: “all forms of hate.” Congratulations, your $70,000-a-year diploma now comes with a side of moral bankruptcy.

The West’s Inkblot Test

Manchester. October 7. Same test. Same inkblot.

• Do you see evil and name it?

• Do you blur it with euphemisms so nobody feels left out?

• Or do you straight-up celebrate it with a Hamas flag and a bullhorn?

This isn’t complicated. What you see in these attacks says everything about whether you believe civilization is worth defending, or whether you’re fine watching it collapse while chanting about “justice.”

The Cost of Unity

Unity without clarity isn’t unity. It’s surrender.

When leaders water down antisemitism into “all hatred,” they’re not preventing division. They’re selling Jews down the river for optics. When universities rebrand Hamas as freedom fighters, they’re not protecting diversity. They’re mainstreaming barbarism.

And here’s the gut punch: even liberal Jews keep playing along. They tell themselves this isn’t really about Jews, not really about them. They cling to the fantasy that if they stand for every other cause, the mob won’t come for them. It’s tragic, and it’s delusional. History already wrote this script, and it doesn’t end with applause from the crowd.

The deeper sickness? The West refuses to recognize evil when it wears a crescent. We will do anything—absolutely anything—to avoid calling Islamist terror what it is. We’ll dress it up as “grievance,” or “resistance,” or just shovel it into the same box as “all forms of hate” so we don’t have to stare the beast in the face.

But evil doesn’t go away because you rename it. It grows. It sharpens the knife while you argue about pronouns.

The cost of this fake unity isn’t peace. It’s more graves, more fear, more blood in the streets. And if we keep pretending otherwise, we’re not just failing the Rorschach test—we’re choosing blindness. And blindness gets people killed.

Call it what it is—or get used to lighting candles at more vigils.