The evil dictatorships that the left don’t want to know about
DANIEL JUPP
IN THE last two years we have been told, very clearly, that there are only two conflicts in the world that progressives and leftists (and most of the Western governments that follow their lead) care about.
Media and government attention, and leftist sympathy, has been overwhelmingly focused on the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas wars, seeing both in startlingly rigid moral terms.
In both cases the leftist position was that we should instantly view one side as the aggressor, the colonialist, the oppressor, and the other side as an innocent, noble, brave resister. For the first of these understandings, there was at least the basis in reality that Putin decided to invade another nation. But the act of evil aggression initiating the Israel-Hamas conflict came from the very side that the left have championed and cast as defenceless, innocent and heroic.
Millions of people across the Western world, overwhelmingly those who vote for or represent left-wing parties, seemed happy to side with terrorists who burnt families alive, who killed parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents, who engaged in brutal, systemic and gleeful gang rapes of screaming victims, and who performed the worst atrocity inflicted on Jews since the end of World War Two, in a completely uncritical manner and view all subsequent deaths as an Israeli rather than Hamas responsibility.
For me, even more than the widespread celebrations of murder we saw in response to the killing of Charlie Kirk, this complete identification with Palestinians after October 7 seems to be an indicator of extremism and moral degeneracy, even had it not been followed by so many indications that this one-sided response to a foreign conflict included within itself a huge groundswell of newly legitimised anti-Semitism.
But there are many other people, as well as Israelis or Jews worldwide and their allies (amongst whom I proudly count myself) whose safety, security and perspectives have been ignored during the leftist obsession with supporting the Palestinians, and ironically enough these people include many Muslims elsewhere. Because while leftists (and the Candace Tucker types too, decent rightists must admit) have been engaging in Jew-hating inflation of Israeli military actions and Jew-hating diminution of Israeli suffering to which those actions respond, other conflicts elsewhere have been almost entirely ignored.
Take the way in which there is so little comment, ever, on most world conflicts. There are currently more than 120 armed conflicts worldwide involving more than 60 nation states and around 120 non-state armed groups (revolutionary militias, Islamic terrorist groups and criminal cartels). These figures are according to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which can hardly be described as a right-wing source.
That’s a lot of war not to be worried about, or automatically to assume is less urgent than the fate of Palestinians or Ukrainians, don’t you think? It’s certainly a lot of conflict to consider less important than one’s personal hatred of Donald Trump. If we look at that second aspect controlling where leftists focus their attentions, we find that while people are parading around on the absurd performative hysteria displays of the ‘No Kings’ marches, which baselessly claim that Donald Trump is a dictator, 60 nation states are currently considered dictatorial according to the World Data Democracy index, and the US isn’t one of them. About 3.2billion human beings live under actual dictatorship, which is 39.3 per cent of the population of the globe.
Not the dictatorship of a set of policies that are within the law which you don’t approve of. Not even the dictatorship of moving away from free speech and towards social credit systems and debanking of dissidents and various increasingly tyrannical exclusions of populist and conservative thought which have been occurring under various Globalist western leaders, but the full-on, widely accepted by everyone studying and researching what tyranny is, kind of tyranny that China or North Korea represents.
When was the last time you heard anyone on the left, any progressive, any young radical, any student activist and any senior Democrat in the US or any left-wing voter or representative in the UK criticise China? The former Canadian leader Justin Trudeau praised China as the one place on Earth he envied. China, of course, has a fully developed technological system where every purchase, every action, is electronically recorded and where your movement, your spending, your social media statements, are all scored and judged and linked to punishments you have no chance to defend yourself against.
When leftist governments both refuse to condemn such a system in China, and work towards creating one within the West, as Keir Starmer is doing with the UK digital ID plan or as the UN and WEF have supported with proposed carbon footprint tracking limits on spending and purchases, we know that these parties, organisations and individuals retain no more Western understanding of freedom than they retain a traditional Western morality when it comes to dealing with Islamic terrorists and their supporters. The very same leftist UK politicians who speak about Donald Trump as a figure of pure evil have never spoken about Xi Jinping in such terms. By contrast, they have advocated ever closer ties with China, and as recent evidence in the UK suggests, deliberately buried the ‘bad news’ of extensive Chinese industrial sabotage and intellectual property theft and espionage activities (including suspected cyberwar attacks on critical infrastructure) in pursuit of that friendly relationship.
The British government that was so critical of Israel’s pursuit of the hostage takers of Hamas has never publicly denounced the Chinese treatment of the Uighur Muslims. Estimates vary between one and three million when calculating the number of Muslims China holds in detention facilities which are the closest modern parallel of concentration camps.
Can anyone recall a march in London in protest against the Chinese putting millions of Muslims in concentration camps? According to the Palestine Solidarity Campaign there have been 32 pro-Palestinian marches against Israel in the UK since October 2023 (in other words they proudly confirm both that these marches started following the October 7 terrorist slaughter, and that this has been an obsessional focus for leftists in the UK).
How can one explain that 67,000 Palestinian deaths (Hamas’s figure) in a two-year war the Palestinians started generate 32 marches, and that up to 3million Muslims in concentration camps for a decade in China doesn’t generate one march . . . except by the realisation that this monomaniacal focus might not be about the defence of the defenceless, or even the defence of Muslims for being Muslims, but represents hatred of Israelis for being Israelis, and of Jews for being Jews?
Similarly it’s hard to suppose that leftists, whether street-level activists or ministers, prime ministers and presidents, actually care about democracy when they have nothing at all to say about the actions of some 60 real dictatorships around the world, but lots to say exclusively on how terribly wicked Donald Trump is for following policies different from their own.
Where is the leftist compassion and kindness, always so quick to be cited in the cause of border crossing illegal aliens, for deaths in wars the leftist and his chosen government prosecutes? Where was it when Obama dropped 26,171 bombs on seven different countries in 2016, a record considerably more belligerent than that of Israel or Netanyahu? Where is it when Israelis shelter from Hamas or Hezbollah rockets, with thousands fired every year at them?
When Trump ends eight major conflicts in just over as many months, would you not think that kind, caring, peaceloving people would deeply respect and cherish him? The President of Pakistan (another in leftist terms impeccably Muslim and brown-skinned source) said this: ‘Had he not intervened with his wonderful team during those four days, the war could’ve escalated to a level and who would’ve lived to tell what happened . . . I would like to nominate this great president for the Nobel Peace Prize, because I genuinely feel he is the most genuine and most wonderful candidate for the peace prize because he has brought not only peace in South Asia – saved millions of people, their lives – and today, achieving peace in Gaza [and] saving millions of lives in the Middle East.’
Curiously, such praise from such a source doesn’t register, even with the tremblingly sensitive heartstrings of the average deeply compassionate leftist.
It’s almost as if it’s not real good or evil, real peace and war, real compassion or real horror, thar registers with the leftist at all. Even their most favoured groups can suffer in millions and they say nothing, when it suits. Even their prioritisation of Muslim lives disappears when a Muslim praises Trump or when the Chinese imprison them.
These are things to hate in some complacent, hypocritical and pampered way based precisely on the full knowledge that they won’t take away your rights, they won’t throw away the keys after locking you up, they aren’t Kings and they aren’t tyrants and there is zero risk to you in hating or condemning them.
You can be a performative rebel against all the people and regimes that don’t arbitrarily kill their critics. But how many progressive leftists aim all their righteous indignation at groups that are violent, regimes that are evil, and actual dictators and killers?
This article (The evil dictatorships that the left don’t want to know about) was created and published by Conservative Woman and is republished here under “Fair Use” with attribution to the author Daniel Jupp
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