Venezuela / The hypocrisy of the Maduro fanclub |
Finally, the left has found a ‘kidnap victim’ it cares about. Having spent more than two years making excuses for Hamas’s savage seizing of 251 Israelis, having violently torn down posters of those stolen Jews, now the activist class has suddenly decided that abduction is bad after all. Why? Because a dictator they admire, Nicolas Maduro, has been abducted by the United States.
What do we even say about people who get more agitated by the seizing of a 63-year-old corrupt ruler than they do by the abduction of a nine-month-old Jew? That was Kfir Bibas, kidnapped along with his mother and his four-year-old brother during Hamas’s carnival of fascist violence on 7 October 2023. They were later murdered. There is more fury in progressive circles over Trump’s nabbing of Maduro than there was over Hamas’s racist snatching of a literal baby.
In the US, leftists have hit the streets to chant ‘Free Maduro’. They furiously decry his ‘criminal abduction’. The British left is a hotbed of purple-prose anger over Trump’s ‘illegal’ abduction of a foreign leader. A huge question dangles precariously over every one of these ostentatious weepers for Maduro: where were you when Hamas criminally intruded into the Jewish State and kidnapped grandmothers, mothers, children? People........