Letter
Absurdities and atrocities
Voltaire got it right when he wrote that, “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities”. The absurdity in this case is to believe that legitimate criticism of Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people constitutes antisemitism. Then you would also have to believe that any criticism of the policies of any country means that you are by definition anti the people of that country.
Yet, no reasonable person believes that, as it would make free communication impossible. However, Zionists, unlike any other political group, are entitled to make such a claim about Israel, and the legal system utterly fails to see the idiotic exceptionalism of that claim.
We are led to believe that Zionists, under this absurd interpretation of words, have this right above every other political group.
Yet it is this absurd claim they make that, according to them, renders them exempt from international law that applies to everyone else regarding atrocities they commit. Whatever legal gymnastics that the Zionists engage in local courts around the world, it will not save them from the consequences of their criminality. At least the International Court of Justice has avoided the absurdities of local jurisdictions!
Editor’s note: The actual quote by Voltaire “Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde, est en droit de vous rendre injuste”, translates into English as “Certainly, whoever has the right to make you absurd has the right to make you unjust”.
— Les Macdonald from Balmain NSW 2041