On February 13, Agnes Callamard, the Secretary General of Amnesty International, issued a public statement condemning the five European foreign ministers who had called for Albanese’s head based on “a deliberately truncated video to misrepresent and gravely misconstrue her messages.” Callamard then contrasted the vehemence of these ministers’ attacks on Albanese with their sotto voce approach to the Israeli genocide in Gaza:
“If only these minsters had been as loud and forceful in confronting a state committing genocide, unlawful occupation and apartheid as they have in attacking a UN expert. Their cowardice and refusal to hold Israel accountable stand in stark contrast to the Special Rapporteur’s unwavering commitment to speaking truth to power.”
What I’m trying to say is that, as much as that may make us feel superior, we don’t need to win arguments and, let alone having fascists recognize we are right, we don’t even need to be right in the first place.
I’ll give you a (surreal, thought-experiment-like) example:
Would a blanket amnesty for all of Netanyahu’s crimes be “right”? Should we support it, if it meant stopping the massacre?
Netenyahu should rot in hell but all former israeli prime ministers alive. Making it only about Netenyahu is so disrespectful to all those palestinians murdered during other prime ministers of israel. All countries should abondon Israel before someone worse than Netenyahu got in power