Gerard Level
The Washington Times, Nov. 23, 2023
“Jews are the only group in Western societies who, in spite of recurrent oppression and discrimination, are seemingly deprived of the right to be viewed as victims, even when they very clearly have incurred all of the indignities and suffering that should be more than adequate for being bestowed that status.”
In contemporary American society, the status of “victim” is one for which so many clamor. Countless groups and individuals seek out that status because it has been decided that with this status, the alleged victim is entitled to special recognition, together with an array of accompanying privileges and rewards.
Attaining the lofty appellation of “victim” can be as simple as merely affirming having suffered some kind of supposed offense, having incurred a modicum of purported suffering, or even having been in some manner “disrespected.”
Of course, not every person or group is held in sufficient esteem by those sanctimonious progressive elites in our society who have arrogated to themselves the right to bestow the designation of victim. In fact, any person or group whose background or ideology does not fit into the progressive definition of someone who has allegedly been discriminated against or oppressed by the “white majority” cannot, today, aspire to victimhood status regardless of the extent of that person’s or group’s suffering. If anyone would have doubted the accuracy of that proposition, the last few weeks should have removed such doubts.
On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists wrought the most brutal slaughter of women, children and the elderly that the world had witnessed in decades. Without warning or provocation, thousands of young men entered the State of Israel and began a massacre of unparalleled contemporary cruelty and depravity. They killed their victims with remorseless persistence, indiscriminately murdering babies, raping young women, killing mothers in front of their children, torturing the elderly and even mutilating their victims when their lives had already been taken.
