Fact Check: Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and other far right figures in Israel have advocated for War crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. This is a fringe view not represented by most Israelis

Fact Check: Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and other far right figures in Israel have advocated for War crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. This is a fringe view not represented by most Israelis

Published March 16, 2025Updated June 18, 2025
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# Fact Check: "Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and other far right figures in Israel have advocated for War crimes, crimes against humanity and gen...

Fact Check: "Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and other far right figures in Israel have advocated for War crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. This is a fringe view not represented by most Israelis"

What We Know

Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are prominent figures in Israel's far-right political landscape, both serving in key positions within Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government. They have made statements that have been interpreted as advocating for extreme measures against Palestinians, including calls for the expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza. For instance, the British Foreign Secretary has condemned their rhetoric as "monstrous" and indicative of incitement to violence and serious human rights abuses (source-2).

Moreover, a report from the Middle East Institute highlights that senior officials in Israel have used genocidal rhetoric, and military operations have often blurred the lines between combatants and civilians (source-1). This has raised alarms internationally, leading to sanctions from several Western countries against these ministers for their incitement of violence (source-3).

However, the claim that this view is "fringe" is more complex. While many Israelis do not support the extreme positions of Ben Gvir and Smotrich, a significant portion of the public has shown support for military actions in Gaza, particularly following the October 7, 2023, attacks by Hamas, which resulted in substantial civilian casualties in Israel (source-1). A Pew Research poll indicated that only 4% of Israeli Jews considered the military response excessive, reflecting a broader acceptance of aggressive military strategies against perceived threats (source-1).

Analysis

The assertion that Ben Gvir and Smotrich advocate for war crimes and genocide is supported by their public statements and the reactions from international bodies. Their calls for harsh measures against Palestinians have been characterized as incitements to violence, leading to sanctions from multiple countries, which underscores the severity of their rhetoric (source-2, source-3).

However, the characterization of these views as "fringe" is more nuanced. While mainstream Israeli society may not fully endorse the extreme positions of these ministers, there is a significant overlap in the public's support for military actions in Gaza, particularly in light of security concerns following attacks from Hamas (source-1). This suggests that while the extreme rhetoric may not represent the majority view, it is not entirely disconnected from broader public sentiment regarding security and military responses.

The sources used in this analysis vary in reliability. The Middle East Institute is generally regarded as a credible source for analysis on Middle Eastern affairs, while mainstream media outlets like The New York Times and BBC provide well-researched reporting. However, the framing of issues can sometimes reflect the biases of the outlets, particularly in politically charged contexts.

Conclusion

The claim that Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and other far-right figures in Israel have advocated for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide is Partially True. While there is substantial evidence supporting the assertion that these figures have made extreme statements and advocated for aggressive policies, the characterization of these views as "fringe" does not fully account for the significant support within Israeli society for military actions against perceived threats. This indicates a complex interplay between extreme political rhetoric and broader public sentiment, suggesting that while the views of Ben Gvir and Smotrich may be extreme, they resonate with a notable segment of the population, particularly in times of heightened conflict.

Sources

  1. The mainstreaming of Israeli extremism
  2. U.K., Canada and Others Impose Sanctions on Far-Right Israeli Ministers ...
  3. UK sanctions far-right Israeli ministers for 'inciting violence ...
  4. Fact Check: Itamar Ben Gvir, Bezalel Smotrich, and other far right ...
  5. U.K., Others Sanction Israeli Ministers Ben-Gvir, Smotrich ...
  6. The Worst Man in Israel Makes a 'Moral' Argument for ...
  7. EU's Borrell: Consider sanctions on Ben Gvir, Smotrich for 'incitement ...
  8. The morality of small means: Sanctioning Israel's ministers

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00:00
I cannot believe that Trump is
cutting Medicaid. Actually,
what I meant to say is that I
can't believe he's not cutting
more of it because medicaid is
a money laundering scheme for
your government.
Congratulations all you
bleeding heart democrats.
Instead of raging against the
machine, you're bending over
for it. Medicaid is jointly run
by the states and the feds and
for every one dollar that your
state allocates to the program,
the Feds turn around and match
that at a level of one 00
percent so one dollar up to
nine dollars. And this money
comes from taxpayers in other
00:34
states. Your money has a 900%
return rate at someone else's
expense. Why wouldn't you
expand the program? Thanks
Obama. That's exactly how we
wound up with way too many
Medicaid recipients in the
first place. Like everything
related to healthcare the
providers are in bed with the
government on this one too
because the government can tax
the providers. 1. Use that
dollar to collect the up to
nine dollars in federal funds
and to reimburse the provider
their original dollar. What?
Robbing the taxpayer to pad the
funding pool leading to
increase reimbursements for
01:06
Medicaid for the providers.
Yeah, if I'm a doctor or a
health care facility, I'm
saying sign me up to that. Yes,
the medical industrial complex
totally has your best interest
in mind so go ahead and swallow
up those vaccines like a good
little comrade. Age me harder
daddy. And speaking of
comrades, do you know how many
people in this country receive
Medicaid that shouldn't? Before
you start screaming, everyone
should get free health care.
Not the argument here. We do
not have universal health care
in the United States. It
doesn't work and since we don't
have it, that means someone is
paying for it and guess what?
There are lower-income families
01:37
who don't qualify for the
benefits but they're taxpayers
and they're being burdened by
this. Back to the point which
is that the system is insanely
abused. I used to do child
support referee work for years
and you would v
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Fact Check: Transcript 00:00 I cannot believe that Trump is cutting Medicaid. Actually, what I meant to say is that I can't believe he's not cutting more of it because medicaid is a money laundering scheme for your government. Congratulations all you bleeding heart democrats. Instead of raging against the machine, you're bending over for it. Medicaid is jointly run by the states and the feds and for every one dollar that your state allocates to the program, the Feds turn around and match that at a level of one 00 percent so one dollar up to nine dollars. And this money comes from taxpayers in other 00:34 states. Your money has a 900% return rate at someone else's expense. Why wouldn't you expand the program? Thanks Obama. That's exactly how we wound up with way too many Medicaid recipients in the first place. Like everything related to healthcare the providers are in bed with the government on this one too because the government can tax the providers. 1. Use that dollar to collect the up to nine dollars in federal funds and to reimburse the provider their original dollar. What? Robbing the taxpayer to pad the funding pool leading to increase reimbursements for 01:06 Medicaid for the providers. Yeah, if I'm a doctor or a health care facility, I'm saying sign me up to that. Yes, the medical industrial complex totally has your best interest in mind so go ahead and swallow up those vaccines like a good little comrade. Age me harder daddy. And speaking of comrades, do you know how many people in this country receive Medicaid that shouldn't? Before you start screaming, everyone should get free health care. Not the argument here. We do not have universal health care in the United States. It doesn't work and since we don't have it, that means someone is paying for it and guess what? There are lower-income families 01:37 who don't qualify for the benefits but they're taxpayers and they're being burdened by this. Back to the point which is that the system is insanely abused. I used to do child support referee work for years and you would v

Detailed fact-check analysis of: Transcript 00:00 I cannot believe that Trump is cutting Medicaid. Actually, what I meant to say is that I can't believe he's not cutting more of it because medicaid is a money laundering scheme for your government. Congratulations all you bleeding heart democrats. Instead of raging against the machine, you're bending over for it. Medicaid is jointly run by the states and the feds and for every one dollar that your state allocates to the program, the Feds turn around and match that at a level of one 00 percent so one dollar up to nine dollars. And this money comes from taxpayers in other 00:34 states. Your money has a 900% return rate at someone else's expense. Why wouldn't you expand the program? Thanks Obama. That's exactly how we wound up with way too many Medicaid recipients in the first place. Like everything related to healthcare the providers are in bed with the government on this one too because the government can tax the providers. 1. Use that dollar to collect the up to nine dollars in federal funds and to reimburse the provider their original dollar. What? Robbing the taxpayer to pad the funding pool leading to increase reimbursements for 01:06 Medicaid for the providers. Yeah, if I'm a doctor or a health care facility, I'm saying sign me up to that. Yes, the medical industrial complex totally has your best interest in mind so go ahead and swallow up those vaccines like a good little comrade. Age me harder daddy. And speaking of comrades, do you know how many people in this country receive Medicaid that shouldn't? Before you start screaming, everyone should get free health care. Not the argument here. We do not have universal health care in the United States. It doesn't work and since we don't have it, that means someone is paying for it and guess what? There are lower-income families 01:37 who don't qualify for the benefits but they're taxpayers and they're being burdened by this. Back to the point which is that the system is insanely abused. I used to do child support referee work for years and you would v

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00:00
White conservatives is not
considering this child an
anchor baby. Education is
elevation and let's get into
the conservative contradictions
of everything they say about
immigration. For instance, do
y'all know that Melania Trump's
visa was questioned in a
congressional hearing this
January twenty twenty-five. You
want to know why? Melania Trump
was a college dropout who
arrived in the United States on
a Einstein visa. Get this
though. Reserved. The other
visa is reserved for people
with extraordinary ability and
sustained national
international acclaim such as a
palitza, Oscar, Olympic Winter,
But listen, Baron was born
00:32
March 20th two thousand and 6.
Melania became a US citizen
July twenty-8th two thousand
and 6. Trump wants to end
birthright citizenship when his
own child is a product of
birthright citizenship. We can
question a Mexican-American
citizen for marrying an
undocumented Mexican. Oh yeah,
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when Europeans do the same
thing or no. On my mama, think
about it. There are 666, 000
illegal immigrants in the
United States from European
countries. The vast majority of
them are white. Yet you don't
01:03
see a single one of them have
their children stripped away
from them, raided, locked up in
cages, and we all know why. You
know equal protection under the
law has always been a myth and
the word immigration has always
been a cold word for unwanted
color people. They ain't
worried about they child being
kidnapped. They ain't worried
about dropping Baron off at
school or in college and him
being being kidnapped by masked
Asians. Elon Musk worked in
United States illegally in 1995
after quit his school job. I
feel like if a Haitian
immigrant came over here and
worked illegally and ended up
amassing a whole bunch of
wealth they will find and trump wants to end birthright citizen ship?	
everything to be illegitimate
because you started off
illegal. Let's pay attention to
the language too y'all. So
Donald Trump's grandfather was
a illegal migrant and a Trojan
horse. Which means that Donald
Trump's parents is a product of
being what they call what a
tether baby, a anchor baby, a
birthright citizenship. To the
people on this side, they do
not believe that the Second
Amendment only applies to
muskets. So you believe that
their only applies to the
sentence of slaves is stupid.
Which brings me to another
point. When these folks want to
distance themselves from
02:06
everybody that benefited from
slavery, they love to tell you
about their proud immigrant
background a
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Fact Check: Transcript 00:00 White conservatives is not considering this child an anchor baby. Education is elevation and let's get into the conservative contradictions of everything they say about immigration. For instance, do y'all know that Melania Trump's visa was questioned in a congressional hearing this January twenty twenty-five. You want to know why? Melania Trump was a college dropout who arrived in the United States on a Einstein visa. Get this though. Reserved. The other visa is reserved for people with extraordinary ability and sustained national international acclaim such as a palitza, Oscar, Olympic Winter, But listen, Baron was born 00:32 March 20th two thousand and 6. Melania became a US citizen July twenty-8th two thousand and 6. Trump wants to end birthright citizenship when his own child is a product of birthright citizenship. We can question a Mexican-American citizen for marrying an undocumented Mexican. Oh yeah, we gotta be able to question when Europeans do the same thing or no. On my mama, think about it. There are 666, 000 illegal immigrants in the United States from European countries. The vast majority of them are white. Yet you don't 01:03 see a single one of them have their children stripped away from them, raided, locked up in cages, and we all know why. You know equal protection under the law has always been a myth and the word immigration has always been a cold word for unwanted color people. They ain't worried about they child being kidnapped. They ain't worried about dropping Baron off at school or in college and him being being kidnapped by masked Asians. Elon Musk worked in United States illegally in 1995 after quit his school job. I feel like if a Haitian immigrant came over here and worked illegally and ended up amassing a whole bunch of wealth they will find and trump wants to end birthright citizen ship? everything to be illegitimate because you started off illegal. Let's pay attention to the language too y'all. So Donald Trump's grandfather was a illegal migrant and a Trojan horse. Which means that Donald Trump's parents is a product of being what they call what a tether baby, a anchor baby, a birthright citizenship. To the people on this side, they do not believe that the Second Amendment only applies to muskets. So you believe that their only applies to the sentence of slaves is stupid. Which brings me to another point. When these folks want to distance themselves from 02:06 everybody that benefited from slavery, they love to tell you about their proud immigrant background a

Detailed fact-check analysis of: Transcript 00:00 White conservatives is not considering this child an anchor baby. Education is elevation and let's get into the conservative contradictions of everything they say about immigration. For instance, do y'all know that Melania Trump's visa was questioned in a congressional hearing this January twenty twenty-five. You want to know why? Melania Trump was a college dropout who arrived in the United States on a Einstein visa. Get this though. Reserved. The other visa is reserved for people with extraordinary ability and sustained national international acclaim such as a palitza, Oscar, Olympic Winter, But listen, Baron was born 00:32 March 20th two thousand and 6. Melania became a US citizen July twenty-8th two thousand and 6. Trump wants to end birthright citizenship when his own child is a product of birthright citizenship. We can question a Mexican-American citizen for marrying an undocumented Mexican. Oh yeah, we gotta be able to question when Europeans do the same thing or no. On my mama, think about it. There are 666, 000 illegal immigrants in the United States from European countries. The vast majority of them are white. Yet you don't 01:03 see a single one of them have their children stripped away from them, raided, locked up in cages, and we all know why. You know equal protection under the law has always been a myth and the word immigration has always been a cold word for unwanted color people. They ain't worried about they child being kidnapped. They ain't worried about dropping Baron off at school or in college and him being being kidnapped by masked Asians. Elon Musk worked in United States illegally in 1995 after quit his school job. I feel like if a Haitian immigrant came over here and worked illegally and ended up amassing a whole bunch of wealth they will find and trump wants to end birthright citizen ship? everything to be illegitimate because you started off illegal. Let's pay attention to the language too y'all. So Donald Trump's grandfather was a illegal migrant and a Trojan horse. Which means that Donald Trump's parents is a product of being what they call what a tether baby, a anchor baby, a birthright citizenship. To the people on this side, they do not believe that the Second Amendment only applies to muskets. So you believe that their only applies to the sentence of slaves is stupid. Which brings me to another point. When these folks want to distance themselves from 02:06 everybody that benefited from slavery, they love to tell you about their proud immigrant background a

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Fact Check: ISLAMISMO E WOKEISMO Há mais de três décadas, Samuel Huntington cometeu a imperdoável heresia de afirmar o óbvio: que o conflito entre a civilização ocidental e o Islão não era uma invenção moderna, mas uma realidade com mais de treze séculos de existência. Pior ainda: teve o desplante de sugerir que o conflito se agravaria. Infelizmente para os arautos da negação permanente, os factos alinharam-se com o diagnóstico. Desde a sua génese, o Islão não se limitou a pregar. Impôs-se. Expandiu-se à força de espada, não de tratados. Onde chegou, não fez coexistência: fez conversão, submissão ou erradicação. Muitos povos, culturas, religiões desapareceram. O Islão avançou durante um milénio, enquanto o Cristianismo recuava. As cruzadas, tão convenientemente demonizadas nos manuais escolares, não foram agressão, mas reacção. A própria identidade europeia só se consolidou em contraponto à agressividade islâmica. A Europa acordou verdadeiramente com o cerco de Viena, em 1683. Foi aí, e só aí, que o recuo do Islão começou. Daí até hoje, foram escassos três século e meio. Um sopro na história, em que o Ocidente se libertou, inventou, construiu, pensou, e avançou. E o mundo islâmico... estagnou. Não por falta de recursos, mas por ser portador de valores errados. Durante a era do marxismo clássico, o conflito islâmico foi dissimulado. A repressão soviética, paradoxalmente, congelou muitos focos de jihadismo. Mas bastou o colapso dessa ortodoxia totalitária para que emergisse o “islamismo”. Não como fé, mas como ideologia política de guerra cultural. Com um detalhe instrutivo: reciclando a velha fraseologia da esquerda. Surgiu a estranha aliança entre Marx e Maomé, agora, actualizada com as roupas carnavalescas do “wokismo” pós-moderno. O novo pacto doentio entre a jihad e os justiceiros sociais do Ocidente é real. Não há fronteiras entre a extrema-esquerda, o islamismo e a extrema-direita quando se trata de odiar o Ocidente. As manifestações em Berlim, Lisboa, Nova Iorque ou Paris a favor do Hamas, reúnem marxistas reciclados, neonazis recicláveis, jihadistas e idiotas úteis com diplomas em Estudos de Género. Entretanto, em praticamente todos os focos de conflito planetário há um denominador comum: o Islão como actor beligerante. Contra judeus no Médio Oriente. Contra hindus na Caxemira. Contra cristãos na Nigéria, Moçambique e Filipinas. Contra budistas na Birmânia. Contra ortodoxos nos Balcãs. Contra ateus na China. E, claro, contra outras seitas muçulmanas no Irão, Síria, Iraque, Paquistão ou Sudão. Um conflito com o mundo inteiro, mas cuja culpa, dizem-nos, é... do Ocidente. Os herdeiros do marxismo, agora de parafernália woke e pronome no crachá, continuam a recitar o mantra do "opressor versus oprimido", encaixando o Islão como eterno oprimido e o Ocidente como opressor. A existência de Israel, claro, é apresentada como a raiz de todos os males, uma fixação patológica que diz mais sobre quem a defende do que sobre a realidade. Bernard Lewis desmontou esta narrativa pueril ainda em 1990. Lembrou que os colonizadores saíram, os impérios acabaram, os recursos foram devolvidos, os ditadores ocidentais depostos e, no entanto, o ressentimento aumentou. A razão é simples: o problema não é o que o Ocidente faz, é o que o Ocidente é. A liberdade, a igualdade entre sexos, a laicidade, a democracia liberal, tudo isso é, para o islamismo, uma ofensa existencial. E eles dizem-no com clareza. Ayman al-Zawahiri, sucessor de Bin Laden, explicou sem rodeios: “A nossa guerra com Israel não é sobre fronteiras, é uma jihad pela religião de Alá, até que esta domine.” Mas não é só Israel. O Ocidente inteiro é Dar al-Harb, o território de guerra. Hoje, a jihad não se faz apenas em Gaza ou no Líbano. Faz-se nos bairros de Paris, nas escolas de Londres, nas universidades de Estocolmo. Faz-se com ataques, com exigências, com insultos, com assassinatos e com silêncios. Imediatamente após o massacre terrorista de 7 de Outubro, o que fez a nova esquerda? Saiu em defesa das vítimas? Não! Organizou manifestações pró-Hamas nas capitais europeias e americanas, com slogans como “Glória aos mártires”. As mesmas vozes que censuram microagressões e pronúncias impróprias, acharam aceitável glorificar actos de barbárie medieval. Em Nova Iorque, Londres, Paris e Berlim, manifestações promovidas por grupos progressistas e universitários colaram-se aos slogans islamistas com total naturalidade. Bandeiras do Hamas e cartazes a pedir “intifada global” foram exibidos... ao lado de bandeiras LGBTQ+ e trans. Em Harvard, Columbia e Yale, mais de 30 grupos de estudantes declararam que Israel era o único culpado pelo massacre de 7 de Outubro. Em vez de protestarem contra o Hamas por assassinar civis, as manifestações universitárias acusaram... Israel de “apartheid”, “colonialismo” e, claro, de “genocídio”. Num dos momentos mais surreais de 2023, uma coligação de grupos LGBTQ+ da Universidade de Berkeley organizou uma vigília em homenagem aos palestinianos, mesmo sabendo que o Hamas executa homossexuais em público. Em 2024, o Conselho de Direitos Humanos da ONU condenou Israel por "uso desproporcional da força", mas não fez qualquer referência às atrocidades cometidas pelo Hamas. Os membros da Organização para a Cooperação Islâmica votaram em bloco, acompanhados por países ocidentais influenciados pela nova ortodoxia woke, como a Noruega e a Irlanda. Este é o resultado da fusão entre o relativismo moral pós-colonial e a militância islâmica. A equação é simples: O Ocidente é sempre o opressor. O "Outro" (mesmo que terrorista, misógino e homofóbico) é sempre o oprimido. A palavra mágica “islamofobia” tornou-se uma arma semântica para silenciar qualquer crítica ao islamismo, mesmo quando este se traduz em decapitações, perseguições religiosas ou apartheid sexual. No Reino Unido, um professor de Batley Grammar School foi forçado a viver escondido com escolta policial por ter mostrado uma caricatura de Maomé numa aula sobre liberdade de expressão. O governo e os media ajoelharam-se à turba islâmica que exigia a cabeça do blasfemo. Onde estavam os "progressistas"? A condenar... o professor. Políticos como George Galloway, trotskista reciclado e muçulmano honorário (eleito em Rochdale, 2024) fizeram campanha abertamente com base na causa palestiniana e nos votos da comunidade muçulmana, enquanto difamavam Israel e relativizavam o terrorismo. Em Birmingham e Londres, há conselheiros municipais que apoiaram declarações públicas contra “a ocupação sionista” enquanto defendem leis inspiradas na sharia dentro das suas comunidades. Em zonas de maioria muçulmana em França, Suécia, Bélgica e Reino Unido, há códigos de conduta paralelos onde as mulheres são pressionadas a cobrir-se, mesmo sendo europeias, e os homossexuais são aconselhados a "não provocar". A esquerda, alegada defensora das liberdades civis? Silenciada pela interseccionalidade e pelo medo de parecer “islamofóbica”. A aliança entre o islamismo político e a ideologia woke é mais do que uma incongruência: é uma bomba moral. De um lado, temos uma ideologia teocrática que despreza os valores liberais. Do outro, temos uma elite ocidental decadente, autofágica, envergonhada da sua civilização e disposta a sacrificar a liberdade em nome da inclusão. A esquerda woke não se aliou ao Islão por partilhar os seus valores. Aliou-se por odiar os nossos. O Ocidente acelera a sua própria desintegração, e a implosão vem de dentro. Os comediantes autocensuram-se. Os jornalistas olham para o lado. E os políticos ajoelham. Uma cortina de medo está a descer sobre o Ocidente. A mesma que desce sempre que a liberdade é sacrificada em nome do multiculturalismo descontrolado, da tolerância suicida ou da estupidez académica. Há quem ainda não tenha entendido o que está em jogo. Mas em 2001, um punhado de passageiros do voo 93 da United Airlines compreendeu. Em quarenta minutos, souberam distinguir o bem do mal. E agiram. Não morreram como cordeiros. Lutaram, e salvaram centenas de vidas.

Detailed fact-check analysis of: ISLAMISMO E WOKEISMO Há mais de três décadas, Samuel Huntington cometeu a imperdoável heresia de afirmar o óbvio: que o conflito entre a civilização ocidental e o Islão não era uma invenção moderna, mas uma realidade com mais de treze séculos de existência. Pior ainda: teve o desplante de sugerir que o conflito se agravaria. Infelizmente para os arautos da negação permanente, os factos alinharam-se com o diagnóstico. Desde a sua génese, o Islão não se limitou a pregar. Impôs-se. Expandiu-se à força de espada, não de tratados. Onde chegou, não fez coexistência: fez conversão, submissão ou erradicação. Muitos povos, culturas, religiões desapareceram. O Islão avançou durante um milénio, enquanto o Cristianismo recuava. As cruzadas, tão convenientemente demonizadas nos manuais escolares, não foram agressão, mas reacção. A própria identidade europeia só se consolidou em contraponto à agressividade islâmica. A Europa acordou verdadeiramente com o cerco de Viena, em 1683. Foi aí, e só aí, que o recuo do Islão começou. Daí até hoje, foram escassos três século e meio. Um sopro na história, em que o Ocidente se libertou, inventou, construiu, pensou, e avançou. E o mundo islâmico... estagnou. Não por falta de recursos, mas por ser portador de valores errados. Durante a era do marxismo clássico, o conflito islâmico foi dissimulado. A repressão soviética, paradoxalmente, congelou muitos focos de jihadismo. Mas bastou o colapso dessa ortodoxia totalitária para que emergisse o “islamismo”. Não como fé, mas como ideologia política de guerra cultural. Com um detalhe instrutivo: reciclando a velha fraseologia da esquerda. Surgiu a estranha aliança entre Marx e Maomé, agora, actualizada com as roupas carnavalescas do “wokismo” pós-moderno. O novo pacto doentio entre a jihad e os justiceiros sociais do Ocidente é real. Não há fronteiras entre a extrema-esquerda, o islamismo e a extrema-direita quando se trata de odiar o Ocidente. As manifestações em Berlim, Lisboa, Nova Iorque ou Paris a favor do Hamas, reúnem marxistas reciclados, neonazis recicláveis, jihadistas e idiotas úteis com diplomas em Estudos de Género. Entretanto, em praticamente todos os focos de conflito planetário há um denominador comum: o Islão como actor beligerante. Contra judeus no Médio Oriente. Contra hindus na Caxemira. Contra cristãos na Nigéria, Moçambique e Filipinas. Contra budistas na Birmânia. Contra ortodoxos nos Balcãs. Contra ateus na China. E, claro, contra outras seitas muçulmanas no Irão, Síria, Iraque, Paquistão ou Sudão. Um conflito com o mundo inteiro, mas cuja culpa, dizem-nos, é... do Ocidente. Os herdeiros do marxismo, agora de parafernália woke e pronome no crachá, continuam a recitar o mantra do "opressor versus oprimido", encaixando o Islão como eterno oprimido e o Ocidente como opressor. A existência de Israel, claro, é apresentada como a raiz de todos os males, uma fixação patológica que diz mais sobre quem a defende do que sobre a realidade. Bernard Lewis desmontou esta narrativa pueril ainda em 1990. Lembrou que os colonizadores saíram, os impérios acabaram, os recursos foram devolvidos, os ditadores ocidentais depostos e, no entanto, o ressentimento aumentou. A razão é simples: o problema não é o que o Ocidente faz, é o que o Ocidente é. A liberdade, a igualdade entre sexos, a laicidade, a democracia liberal, tudo isso é, para o islamismo, uma ofensa existencial. E eles dizem-no com clareza. Ayman al-Zawahiri, sucessor de Bin Laden, explicou sem rodeios: “A nossa guerra com Israel não é sobre fronteiras, é uma jihad pela religião de Alá, até que esta domine.” Mas não é só Israel. O Ocidente inteiro é Dar al-Harb, o território de guerra. Hoje, a jihad não se faz apenas em Gaza ou no Líbano. Faz-se nos bairros de Paris, nas escolas de Londres, nas universidades de Estocolmo. Faz-se com ataques, com exigências, com insultos, com assassinatos e com silêncios. Imediatamente após o massacre terrorista de 7 de Outubro, o que fez a nova esquerda? Saiu em defesa das vítimas? Não! Organizou manifestações pró-Hamas nas capitais europeias e americanas, com slogans como “Glória aos mártires”. As mesmas vozes que censuram microagressões e pronúncias impróprias, acharam aceitável glorificar actos de barbárie medieval. Em Nova Iorque, Londres, Paris e Berlim, manifestações promovidas por grupos progressistas e universitários colaram-se aos slogans islamistas com total naturalidade. Bandeiras do Hamas e cartazes a pedir “intifada global” foram exibidos... ao lado de bandeiras LGBTQ+ e trans. Em Harvard, Columbia e Yale, mais de 30 grupos de estudantes declararam que Israel era o único culpado pelo massacre de 7 de Outubro. Em vez de protestarem contra o Hamas por assassinar civis, as manifestações universitárias acusaram... Israel de “apartheid”, “colonialismo” e, claro, de “genocídio”. Num dos momentos mais surreais de 2023, uma coligação de grupos LGBTQ+ da Universidade de Berkeley organizou uma vigília em homenagem aos palestinianos, mesmo sabendo que o Hamas executa homossexuais em público. Em 2024, o Conselho de Direitos Humanos da ONU condenou Israel por "uso desproporcional da força", mas não fez qualquer referência às atrocidades cometidas pelo Hamas. Os membros da Organização para a Cooperação Islâmica votaram em bloco, acompanhados por países ocidentais influenciados pela nova ortodoxia woke, como a Noruega e a Irlanda. Este é o resultado da fusão entre o relativismo moral pós-colonial e a militância islâmica. A equação é simples: O Ocidente é sempre o opressor. O "Outro" (mesmo que terrorista, misógino e homofóbico) é sempre o oprimido. A palavra mágica “islamofobia” tornou-se uma arma semântica para silenciar qualquer crítica ao islamismo, mesmo quando este se traduz em decapitações, perseguições religiosas ou apartheid sexual. No Reino Unido, um professor de Batley Grammar School foi forçado a viver escondido com escolta policial por ter mostrado uma caricatura de Maomé numa aula sobre liberdade de expressão. O governo e os media ajoelharam-se à turba islâmica que exigia a cabeça do blasfemo. Onde estavam os "progressistas"? A condenar... o professor. Políticos como George Galloway, trotskista reciclado e muçulmano honorário (eleito em Rochdale, 2024) fizeram campanha abertamente com base na causa palestiniana e nos votos da comunidade muçulmana, enquanto difamavam Israel e relativizavam o terrorismo. Em Birmingham e Londres, há conselheiros municipais que apoiaram declarações públicas contra “a ocupação sionista” enquanto defendem leis inspiradas na sharia dentro das suas comunidades. Em zonas de maioria muçulmana em França, Suécia, Bélgica e Reino Unido, há códigos de conduta paralelos onde as mulheres são pressionadas a cobrir-se, mesmo sendo europeias, e os homossexuais são aconselhados a "não provocar". A esquerda, alegada defensora das liberdades civis? Silenciada pela interseccionalidade e pelo medo de parecer “islamofóbica”. A aliança entre o islamismo político e a ideologia woke é mais do que uma incongruência: é uma bomba moral. De um lado, temos uma ideologia teocrática que despreza os valores liberais. Do outro, temos uma elite ocidental decadente, autofágica, envergonhada da sua civilização e disposta a sacrificar a liberdade em nome da inclusão. A esquerda woke não se aliou ao Islão por partilhar os seus valores. Aliou-se por odiar os nossos. O Ocidente acelera a sua própria desintegração, e a implosão vem de dentro. Os comediantes autocensuram-se. Os jornalistas olham para o lado. E os políticos ajoelham. Uma cortina de medo está a descer sobre o Ocidente. A mesma que desce sempre que a liberdade é sacrificada em nome do multiculturalismo descontrolado, da tolerância suicida ou da estupidez académica. Há quem ainda não tenha entendido o que está em jogo. Mas em 2001, um punhado de passageiros do voo 93 da United Airlines compreendeu. Em quarenta minutos, souberam distinguir o bem do mal. E agiram. Não morreram como cordeiros. Lutaram, e salvaram centenas de vidas.

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