Gaza supporters could choose a new group to support -- but they never will
- Jewish Post columnist Michael Levin list-serves a world of horrors—from Tibet to the Rohingya to Nigeria—while dunking on campus 'justice seekers.'
- The piece suggests the only thing keeping woke activists from solving global genocide is a severe allergy to anything that makes Israel look guilty.
- Levin frames the selective outrage as a Big Lie on campus: it's never about universal human rights when it's always about bashing the one Jewish state.
- Death tolls for Uyghurs, Yazidis, and Christians line up as evidence that the 'Free Palestine' crowd is less about justice, more about Jew-hate cosplay.
- The author offers zero practical advice for helping any group, just moral superiority for breakfast. Delicious, but not exactly a service announcement.
Brief Summary
Michael Levin’s latest sermon to the corporate shill class basically says, 'If you can hyperventilate for Gaza, you can spare a tear for Tibet, Uyghurs, or Christians in Nigeria.' It's a laundry list of global catastrophes, professionally wrapped in a rhetorical wet noodle. The piece argues that American progressives are the world’s most selective mourners—posting #SavePalestine but canceling Richard Gere for asking about the Dalai Lama. They can't be bothered with Yezidi sex slaves or Baha'i prisoners because that would disrupt the singular, sacred narrative: Israel is the devil. Levin concludes those misled by intersectionality are just conditioned Jew-haters, and the rest of the world's victims aren't holding their breath for a boring campus vigil. The tone is part op-ed, part roast, and the point is as sharp as a dull spoon: your moral outrage is on a leash, and it only points one direction. In the end, it’s a scathing critique of psychological bias, though it reads like a professor scolding a toddler for eating only the marshmallows in their cereal of pain.
Why This Matters
This isn't just a column—it's a mirror held up to the hypocrisy of the casual activist. The average reader might recognize a fragment of themselves in Levin’s crosshairs if they’ve ever tweeted a hashtag without reading the history. The piece challenges the self-appointed moral arbiters of the West to expand their bandwidth or admit their activism is actually spleen-venting, not virtue. If you’re one of the millions who get rage-boners over Gaza tweets but can't define 'Rohingya,' this is your call to either study up or shut up. For everyone else, it’s a fun game of spotting which atrocity your Instagram feed ignored last month. But let's be real: nobody is switching causes. This story’s only real impact is in the echo chamber of US campuses where it will be loudly dismissed as 'whataboutism' and neatly ignored. So, while the op-ed is sharp, its effect on the audience is about as lasting as a Snapchat story.