By Daniel Greenfield @ Sultan Knish Blog
No sooner had Israel lowered the bodies of the two murdered Bibas children into their graves, than radical leftists began accusing Jews of “white supremacy” for mourning them.
The
Empire State Building and a number of other national landmarks had
changed their colors to orange to honor the two redheaded children,
9-month-old Kfir and 4-year-old Ariel, and people of conscience, Jewish
and non-Jewish, had adopted orange to memorialize them.
- “This is just white nationalism,” accused ‘Séamus’ Malekafzali, the son of an Iranian Marxist, who is published at The Nation.
- “Just make the hair blonde instead of red and it immediately becomes identifiable as Nazi-style racial supremacist propaganda by modern day Nazis, Zionists,” agreed Emma Vigeland, a veteran of The Young Turks who co-hosts the left-wing Majority Report with Sam Seder.
- “Propagandists are fetishizing the red hair of two dead white kids,” Caitlin Johnstone, an Australian self-described ‘journalist’, complained. “Look at any photo of the Bibas kids and you will see children who look just like the white children you’ll see in any western nation.”
- “I swear, if I hear one more person cry about the Bibas family, I’ll lose my mind,” Aidan Simardone, a Canadian immigration lawyer published in The New Arab, Counterpunch and the Soros-Koch Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, ranted. “This is White supremacy”.
- “Getting angry over the Bibas family reveals your white supremacy,” an account calling itself the Palestine News Network sneered. “The obsession with the hair color of the Bibas children is pure white supremacy”, another self-proclaimed social media ‘writer’ and ‘filmmaker’ argued.
The
last name ‘Bibas’ is of Middle Eastern origin and is common among
Sefardi Jews. Yarden Bibas, the father of the two murdered children, was
descended from Jewish refugees who fled Yemen. The family used to joke
that the two children were the “first Yemenite redheads.”
If a
family descended from the Yemeni Jewish community, a middle eastern
population which goes back over 2,500 years, are white supremacists,
then so is every single Jew in the world. If mourning the Bibas children
is white supremacy, then the same is true for any Jewish child.
And
that is the point. It’s not about the hair. Those who condemn the
mourning for the Bibas children would condemn the mourning of any
murdered Jewish child as more ‘white supremacy’.
Biblical figures
like Esau and King David were believed to have red hair and even
Mohammed, the founder of Islam, was described as having red hair. Some
Muslims dye their hair or beards red in imitation of their prophet. If
red hair is white supremacy, then Islam is white supremacy.
Islamists
and their secular socialist allies use the red hair of the Bibas
children to argue that they were colonists, that they never belonged in
the region and therefore deserved to die. This was what the Islamic
State did when it massacred and enslaved the Yazidis who were guilty of
being non-Muslims and having blonde hair and blue eyes. Yazidi survivors
described slave markets at which ISIS Jihadis offered to pay more for
girls with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Were those raped girls in the hands of Hamas’ Iraqi cousins also ‘white supremacists’?
The
critical race theory premise that people with blond or red hair are
white supremacists, and that those with darker hair and skin are
oppressed victims entitled to commit genocide meets its bloodiest test
in the middle east where indigenous minorities like the Jews and
Yazidis, some of whom have light colored hair, face genocide from the
conquering Arab Muslim majority.
Legitimizing the murder of
Jewish children for their race as opposition to white supremacy means
that the Nazis were the only true opponents of white supremacy and the
Holocaust was social justice in action, instead of the vilest thing
people associate with ‘white supremacy’.
Declaring the Jews to be
a non-native race that must be ethnically cleansed from the region is
what the National Socialists did. It’s what the Democratic Socialists
are doing now to Israel. The Democratic Socialists of America and other
pro-Hamas socialists not only support a new Holocaust, but also at the
hands of the old allies of the Nazis who took part in the last one.
Hamas emerged from the Muslim Brotherhood. The Nazis had financed the Brotherhood
and the key documents of both the Egyptian group and its Gaza branch
that created Hamas contain Nazi ideology alongside the traditional
Islamic antisemitism. Hitler’s Mufti brought a diverse collection of
African and Arab soldiers to fight for the Nazis as part of the ‘Free
Arabian Legion.’
‘White supremacy’ was surprisingly diverse even back in the days of the Third Reich.
The
only difference between Hamas and the Nazis is their perceived races
and the perceived races of their victims. It isn’t the Jews mourning the
murdered Bibas children who are ‘racializing’ them, it’s the apologists
for Hamas to whom red hair proves they’re the wrong race.
But if
red hair didn’t make Mohammed, who began the Islamic genocide of the
region’s more diverse indigenous peoples, a ‘white supremacist’ why does
it make the Bibas children ‘white supremacists’? The victims of Hamas
on Oct 7 included redheads and blondes, and people with black skin and
hair, much as the six million Jews in the Holocaust included every hair
color.
Along with Aryan looking blonds with blue eyes like my father who was able to ‘blend in’.
The
real issue was never hair or eye color; it was Jewishness. The red hair
of the Bibas children like the Aryan blond hair and blue eyed criteria
are only pretexts for racializing and killing Jews.
Socialists,
national or democratic, who tear down the posters of murdered children,
desecrate their memorials and denounce Jews for mourning their own
children have labeled any opposition to the murder of Jews as “white
supremacy”.Only killing Jews isn’t white supremacy.
Their new definition of “white supremacy” is opposing another Holocaust.
The
ultimate Jewish crime in Israel is not any of the catalog of lies,
smears, conspiracy theories, historical revisionism and ceaseless moral
inversion that form the case for ‘Palestine’, a fictional entity
consisting of a genocidal population of colonists, it’s the Jewish
refusal to be murdered.
It’s not about red hair, but about red blood.
The
radical left has inverted anti-Nazism to mean Nazism, opposition to
genocide to mean genocide, and opposition to hate to mean hate. White
supremacy, it declares, is that not only do the Jews refuse to die, but
that they still dare to mourn their beloved dead.
Daniel Greenfield is a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. This article previously appeared at the Center's Front Page Magazine. Click here to subscribe to my articles. And click here to support my work with a donation. Thank you for reading.
