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Short answer
Selective activism means pretending to care about justice while only protesting where it’s politically fashionable. Nowhere is this more obvious than with Israel: self-proclaimed “human rights defenders” ignore 500,000 dead in Syria, famine in Yemen, slavery in Libya, genocide against Uyghurs in China, and the ethnic cleansing of Armenians, yet suddenly become loud revolutionaries the moment Jews are involved.
In 2025, the obsession with Israel hit absurd levels: city councils across the U.S. and Europe passed boycott resolutions, ports blocked Israeli cargo, and French towns flew Palestinian flags — all while ignoring the fact that Hamas executes Palestinians in the streets, tortures civilians who try to flee, steals humanitarian aid, and uses child soldiers. No one blocks Turkish, Chinese, or Iranian goods, only the Jewish state is treated as a global pariah.
That’s not activism, it’s hypocrisy wearing a keffiyeh, driven by electoral calculations and political interests. And when the outrage always points in one direction, it’s not human rights advocacy it’s antisemitism.
Long answer
Selective activism is when people shout about one cause while ignoring others, often far worse, elsewhere. If activism were truly about justice, it would be consistent, not dependent on which outrage trend is most fashionable on social media. Yet nowhere is this hypocrisy more obvious than with Israel. The same “human rights defenders” who ignored 500,000 killed in Syria, genocide against Uyghurs in China, famine and slavery in Yemen, or the ethnic cleansing of Armenians suddenly become full-time revolutionaries the moment Jews are involved.
They didn’t boycott Turkey when it bombed Kurdish villages. They didn’t sanction Iran when it hanged gay teenagers or executed women for refusing hijab. They didn’t mobilize when Nigeria’s Christians were massacred by jihadists, or when Libya auctioned Black migrants in open-air slave markets. They didn’t protest when Egypt imprisoned dissidents or when Qatar used slave labor to build World Cup stadiums. They didn’t even speak up when Palestinians themselves were oppressed by Arabs, denied citizenship in Lebanon or Syria, or executed in Gaza for protesting against Hamas.
But when Israel defends itself against a genocidal terror group? Suddenly every influencer, professor, city council, and pop star becomes an expert on “resistance.” In 2025 alone, U.S. and European municipalities passed resolutions to cut financial ties with Israel, ports refused Israeli cargo, and French town halls raised Palestinian flags in defiance of their national governments. Not one of them did the same for Syria, Yemen, Sudan, China, or Iran.
Even humanitarian aid outrage is selective. No one complains when Saudi Arabia blocks food to Yemen, or when Assad starves civilians in besieged towns. No one demands ceasefires from Hamas when it fires rockets from hospitals or schools, only from the country defending itself. No viral hashtags among the “activists” demanded Hamas release hostages, only that Israel stop fighting the ones who kidnapped them.
This isn’t activism or morality — it’s a political performance and mob signaling. And when the outrage consistently appears only when Jews are involved, let’s stop pretending it’s about human rights.
It’s selective hypocrisy — and yes, it’s antisemitism.
