For the past several years, I have watched people tear apart and divide each other on stupid grounds of opinion rather than a sense of tangible right and wrong while actual moral and ethical issues were considered some sort of optional sidequest. Now an actual issue of right and wrong comes out, and I cannot fucking believe how many people I see being FLAT OUT WRONG in this, so let’s rap, shall we?

There is a simple truth that I know to be completely infallible when it comes to judging a society or a person. However they treat the least among them, the weakest, the ones who NEED their rights defended, is directly equal to their worth. The weakest are always in four groups: children, elders, women, and animals. What I know to be RIGHT, not even my OPINION, is that if you wantonly cause injury and death to these groups, you, your cause, or your society, is SHIT. FULL STOP. There is no other argument. Hamas is shit. They are not FREEING Palestine or anyone. You take the freedoms of the least among any group of humans, you are taking the freedoms of all, your own people included. This has been proven time and time again in the history of our world. It is THE control in the great human moral experiment we could call our existence.

Nothing about this is political. Nor is it related to a rigid set of religious or cultural dogma. It’s common sense, it’s common decency. That being said, we all need an example to look to in hard times, don’t we?

Let me introduce you to mine. In a work camp during the last dying gasps of WWII, United States Army Master Sergeant Roddie Edmond was demanded by his captors to turn over Jews who were hiding as Gentiles among his imprisoned men. With a gun to his head, Roddie’s answer was this: “We are all Jews here”. He would hand over NO ONE.

Never really been good at being religious. Never knew how to answer the question of “What Would Jesus Do?” when it became so popular amongst those of my generation. Well, Roddie made his answer pretty damn clear. Until innocent people are no longer hurting, that too is what I am because if I do not see undeserved human pain as my own, I do not get to call myself human.

So, today, I am a Jew. Because I will not
be Hamas. Wow, guess that’s cultural appropriation. Cancel me.