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Since the Oct. 7 massacre, Israel’s war with Hamas has been at the forefront of the bizarre debate that is only sparked when Jews dare to defend themselves against attempted genocide. But since that horrific day, Israel has also been fighting another enemy that, until recently, has largely gone unnoticed.
On Oct. 8, in solidarity with Hamas, Lebanon-based Hezbollah started firing rockets and other artillery at Israeli civilian areas in Northern Israel, forcing almost 100,000 Israelis from their homes. These strikes, funded and enabled by Iran, have been relentless and deadly. As is always the case, it’s not even “just” Israelis who are falling victim to one of the many Islamic terrorist groups that don’t care how old or young, strong or weak, military or civilian, or Jewish or non-Jewish their victims are. For example, on July 27, one rocket hit a soccer field in Majdal Shams, a Druze town in the Golan Heights, killing 12 children and young adults and injuring dozens more people.
The latest chapter in this particular conflict began when cellphones and pagers owned by Hezbollah terrorists exploded in Lebanon, sparking panic in what can only be described as a James Bond level of warfare and espionage.
The sheer military dominance of Israel in this instance is an obvious example of civilizational triumph over radical Islamic barbarism, using technology to hyper-focus efforts against terrorists in order to subvert their singular bloody goal: to kill as many civilians as possible.
But unfortunately, we live in a world that is upside-down. It has not only fallen into the clutches of the same terrorists who want to feed Western civilization into a meat grinder but also become hypnotized by the double standard of antisemitism that holds Jews to impossible standards of behavior while holding Islamic terrorists to no standards at all.
The response across our society to the assassination of Hezbollah terrorists tells you how far we have fallen.
The Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, held a fundraiser and candlelight vigil for Hezbollah, calling for people to “stand for Lebanon, stand for humanity.”
Slow Factory, a group “addressing the intersecting crises of climate justice and social inequity,” and its Lebanese founder Celine Semaan described the targeted attack as an “act of terrorism,” saying that “the use of the word ‘terrorist’ to describe Arab populations, including children, is a racist slur” against “occupied” Arabs who have “endured” terrorism for “a hundred years.”
Lebanon, by the way, is not occupied.
“Israel’s pager attack in Lebanon detonated thousands of handheld devices across of a slew of public spaces, seriously injuring and killing innocent civilians,” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said. “This attack clearly and unequivocally violates international humanitarian law and undermines US efforts to prevent a wider conflict.”
“Why don’t you mention the pagers were on members of a terrorist organization that is committed to destroying Israel?” news anchor Chris Cuomo asked.
“What did the 9 year old girl who was killed do to deserve that, Chris?” Ocasio-Cortez responded.
Why were you silent after Druze children were murdered by Hezbollah, congresswoman? What did they do to deserve that?
What do these responses, and countless more, have in common, beyond parroting Hezbollah’s own propaganda in response to Jews daring to fight back?
They represent a broken moral compass that allows people to ignore Hezbollah’s murder of Druze children, while being outraged when Israel targets the group responsible for these children’s deaths.
Of course, it’s beyond tragic that any child is harmed in this world. However, if we agree that children’s lives have value, which they do, these activists should have to explain why the children placed in harm’s way by Hezbollah are the fault of Israel, but the children murdered by Hezbollah while playing soccer in Israel don’t deserve even a second’s thought.
People who were silent when Hezbollah murdered Druze children or when Hezbollah implanted among children and other innocent civilians but managed to find their voice the second Hezbollah came under justifiable threat from Israel don’t care about these children.
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Just like Hezbollah, they only care about using these children as part of their obsessive hatred for Jews who just refuse to be slaughtered.
Ian Haworth is a columnist, speaker, and podcast host. You can find him on Substack and follow him on X at @ighaworth.
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