Horrifying news from Gaza. Hamas has carried out a mass public execution. The victims – who showed signs of having been brutally beaten – were blindfolded, forced to kneel, and then shot dead. The footage is utterly chilling. I have just one question: when will Western Left-wingers start marching in protest?
After all, we know how very, very deeply they care about the lives of Palestinians. So they will have been appalled to see Palestinians being executed on their own streets like this. As the Independent Commission for Human Rights in Palestine has said, these executions were “a gross violation of the right to life, physical integrity and the right to a fair trial”. And, as a spokesman for Fatah, a political party in the West Bank, has said: “This is how Hamas persecutes civilians”.
Presumably, therefore, we can expect Western politicians, activists and celebrities to be up in arms about this latest sickening bloodshed in Gaza. Greta Thunberg, I feel sure, will be setting sail immediately, so she can tell Hamas exactly what she thinks of them.
Meanwhile, Kneecap and Bob Vylan are doubtless planning a special joint concert, at which they will vociferously deplore these cold-blooded killings. And we can certainly look forward to full-throated condemnation from the many, many Left-wing MPs who have so consistently spoken out against violence in Gaza.
Then, of course, there’s that delightful-sounding PPE undergraduate from Oxford University, who proudly told a rally of his fellow pro-Palestinian activists in central London on Saturday that he’d been “workshopping” a chant that goes: “Gaza, Gaza make us proud – put the Zios in the ground!” In response to this week’s executions, I expect he’ll be urgently adapting the lyrics to, “Put Hamas in the ground.” Or, at the very least, “Put Hamas on trial in The Hague for their shocking abuses of human rights.”
Horrifying news from Gaza. Hamas has carried out a mass public execution. The victims – who showed signs of having been brutally beaten – were blindfolded, forced to kneel, and then shot dead. The footage is utterly chilling. I have just one question: when will Western Left-wingers start marching in protest?
After all, we know how very, very deeply they care about the lives of Palestinians. So they will have been appalled to see Palestinians being executed on their own streets like this. As the Independent Commission for Human Rights in Palestine has said, these executions were “a gross violation of the right to life, physical integrity and the right to a fair trial”. And, as a spokesman for Fatah, a political party in the West Bank, has said: “This is how Hamas persecutes civilians”.
Presumably, therefore, we can expect Western politicians, activists and celebrities to be up in arms about this latest sickening bloodshed in Gaza. Greta Thunberg, I feel sure, will be setting sail immediately, so she can tell Hamas exactly what she thinks of them.
Meanwhile, Kneecap and Bob Vylan are doubtless planning a special joint concert, at which they will vociferously deplore these cold-blooded killings. And we can certainly look forward to full-throated condemnation from the many, many Left-wing MPs who have so consistently spoken out against violence in Gaza.
Then, of course, there’s that delightful-sounding PPE undergraduate from Oxford University, who proudly told a rally of his fellow pro-Palestinian activists in central London on Saturday that he’d been “workshopping” a chant that goes: “Gaza, Gaza make us proud – put the Zios in the ground!” In response to this week’s executions, I expect he’ll be urgently adapting the lyrics to, “Put Hamas in the ground.” Or, at the very least, “Put Hamas on trial in The Hague for their shocking abuses of human rights.”