On the first anniversary of the horrific Hamas Oct. 7 terror attack against Israel in 2023, a prominent leftist philosopher decried the creation of the Israeli state in a George Soros-funded outlet.
In an op-ed published in the Soros-funded publication Project Syndicate, Slavoj Žižek, a Slovenian Marxist philosopher and director at the University of London’s Birkbeck Institute, insinuated the destruction of the Israeli state would result in peace in the Middle East. Žižek had the temerity to invoke biblical language by bafflingly referring to the Israeli state as Europe’s “original sin” following World War II that sparked much of the conflict around that region seen today and as a “symbol of European oppression and colonialization.” An estimated $2,914,890 was funneled into Project Syndicate by Soros, who has a sordid history of peddling anti-Israel sentiments and financing anti-Semitic groups that celebrated the Oct. 7 massacre. In a resurfaced op-ed from early 2007, Soros demanded America and Israel “open the door to Hamas.” Žižek, in effect, fits himself right in with the Soros brand.
Žižek buried his true intent at the bottom of a hill of ludicrous equivalencies between the Israel-Palestinian conflict and the Russia-Ukraine war. In Žižek’s view, Israel is not that dissimilar from Russia, and Ukraine has parallels with “Palestine.” “If Russia occupies part of Ukraine and proclaims it part of Russia, can it then claim self-defense when it crushes those who resist,” he absurdly stated in comparison to Israel.
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The Holy Land, long dominated and conquered by numerous empires over the centuries, is known to be the ancient land of the Jewish people. This fact, however, seems to be lost on Žižek, who claimed the establishment and movement of Jewish people to Israel was the result of European guilt following the Holocaust post-World War II. As long as that “sin” is not atoned for, spewed Žižek, there won’t be peace in the Middle East.
“Europeans gave the survivors of that genocide land that other people had inhabited for centuries. It is that original sin which, unexpiated, is once again preventing peace and quiet in the Middle East.” Žižek wrote disturbingly.
Dan Schneider, Vice President of Free Speech America blasted Žižek in a statement, saying, “Žižek is a shining example of how really smart people can also be really dumb. First, he is very deceptive about how he describes the creation of the modern state of Israel. Jews have been continuously living on that land for thousands of years, more than twice as long as Islam has even existed as a religion. Jews were ‘given’ nothing they didn’t already have a right to.” Schneider continued, “And the so-called ‘sin’ of which Žižek writes allowed for the creation of the only country in the Middle East that honors the rule of law, individual rights, and pluralism. Try being a Muslim of the wrong sect in Egypt, Jordan, Iran, or any other Islamic country. The two safest places on the planet for Muslims are the US and Israel. The Marxist dogma remains strong in Žižek to this day.”
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