Every life is precious.As Jews, our tradition teaches us b’tzelem elohim — every life is precious. Every person is an entire world, and every death is a world extinguished.This past weekend, 106 people were killed in Palestine – 100 of those were Palestinians, and six were Israelis.We mourn each and every life. That’s why we’ve spent eleven months mobilizing our immense grief into action.Because every life is precious — equally so — we refuse the systems that treat some lives as more worthy of grief and protection than others. This past weekend, Biden spoke only of six Israeli deaths, and said nothing about the daily genocidal death and destruction the Israeli military is carrying out on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The mainstream media followed suit. Every life lost is a tragedy — but from reading the news, one would think that the six Israeli hostages were the only people with grieving families.
This is how today's antisemites pretend that they only care about morality.
Every life is not equally precious and every death is not equally tragic. Everyone with a brain knows that. The Geneva Conventions knows that. International humanitarian law understands this. Every nation knows that. Civilian life must be protected more than soldiers' lives; soldiers' lives must be protected more than terrorist lives.
Only moral midgets who say kaddish for Hamas terrorists pretend not to know this.
JVP is equating the six Israelis who were abducted at a music concert and murdered last week with Ahmed Wadiyya, the Hamas commander who led the invasion of Moshav Netiv Ha’asara on October 7 and who tossed a grenade in a shelter with Gil Taasa and his two young sons Koren, 12 and Shay. Gil jumped on the grenade, saving his children who witnessed their father being murdered. Wadiyya then calmly took a Coke from the refrigerator and drank it in front of the crying children.
That is only one monster who JVP is mourning and claiming is as holy as heroic Gil Taasa.
Of course, JVP knows they are full of crap. The entire reason to publish this perversion of morality is not to say Palestinian lives are precious but to water down the value of Jewish lives, to pretend that all Jews are as guilty and as deserving of death as the worst Hamas murderers and rapists.
To equate the lives of Palestinian terrorists who were eliminated while planning attacks on Jews with Jews who are brutally murdered and executed by those terrorists is disgusting. It is pure antisemitism.
JVP is the lowest of the low.
