This post has been a long time coming for me. Truthfully, it makes me really fucking sad that is necessary, but its clear the broader Left has abandoned the goals, values and ideals I hold for hatred. So I imagine lots of people reading this have many, many questions. I'm going to start with a date.
That date was the start of russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine. The start of a genocidal, imperialist war to conquer a democratic nation, wipe out or assimilate its population and call it peacemaking. The response from the Left at the time, including many within my own efforts to unionize the RA's and TA's at school was... lackluster to say the least. Most didn't care, some had milquetoast "russia shouldn't do that" responses, some like me stepped up, donated to the AFU, thought of volunteering, and listened to our comrades in Eastern and Central European anti-fascist organizations who called on the Left to fight back against russian imperialism.
Worse, was a small, but still noticeably numerous group who aligned with russia. This was a war of "denazification" this was a war against the evils of NATO, this was a war to get rid of the evil, gay, Zionist, Nazi, Satanist, atheist Ukrainians and wipe out their genetically modified super soldiers, mosquito bioweapon labs or whatever bullshit lie russia is telling these days. At the time, I dismissed these groups as small but unimportant groups that were just making noise on the net, yet they worried me, so I started to drift from the Left.
I was wrong. They weren't small, or underfunded groups.
Hamas, under orders from Iran to assist russia (which was currently flagging and attempting to reorganize after disastrous losses in 2022) launched a cross border raid into Israel, with the goal of linking up with the West Bank, and launching a new renewed war in Israel-Palestine. This failed, despite the IDF being woefully unready, and Mossad somehow missing this (there is a joke to be made here about military intelligence, but its in poor taste so I won't go there.). Yet, 1,219 people were killed, many of them peace activists at a music festival. 251 people were abducted, 70 of them being Arab, and a handful of foreign nationals. The majority were Jewish. This is saying nothing of the sexual violence perpetrated in this attack.
What struck me, is this small portion of the Left I discussed earlier turned on Israel on day one. Celebrated the attack, called for more attacks, ignored the sexual violence. I thought that it made sense that the morons would do that.
Then that movement started to grow.
People I called my friends shared footage of Israeli attack helicopters attacking the fence line, stating it was them attacking the music festival, even thought it was clearly nighttime in the footage. Some started to say the sexual violence wasn't actually real, something that deeply bothered me as a survivor myself. Some said that russsia and Iran had NOTHING to do with this, and this was just Palestinians as a whole finally deciding to finish the fight (or perhaps finish the final solution, I know what the Arab league of states put on their declaration of war in 47').
Every time I brought up evidence, facts, primary sources that disproved them they'd dig in. This confused me, I thought we were the side of politics that respected these things, that saw grey areas, that recognized things are more complicated underneath the media.
Israel's heavy handed response to the attack has resulted in mass suffering. There have undoubtedly been war crimes committed, there have been violations of international law. Yet somehow despite that as of 14/12/2025 only 70 000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza. This is still a tragedy, it is still wrong. Yet when I brought up that these numbers are low, especially compared to Mariupol where the official death toll is 24 000 with 50 000 people abducted to "reeducation camps" in russia I was told that Gaza is still somehow worse. Note, that from my own counting of graves and mass grave sites on satellite imagery in Mariupol, the true death toll is likely closer to 100 000, potentially higher depending on how many people are in those mass graves.
Mariupol was leveled in 2 months of fighting. Gaza has sustained nearly 3 years at this point. Yet their deathtolls are vastly different. One is a genocide, the other is a very messy, very tragic, very awful urban war. It is easy to see which is which. Yet somehow, despite the facts being evident, the Left continued down the road of rabid Jew hate, continued to become more and more insane, and somehow still had more and more people joining them.
Lets circle to today, the last two days. Noam Chomsky is on Epstein's island with Steve Bannon. Great. Lovely. Fuck him, put him in prison. Nope, the Left rushes to defend him, state that it just be AI (No), states that he must be trying to undermine the right (No), states that maybe he was gathering intel (No). The most likely explanation, is he was there to assault children. Fullstop. Then not a day later, 12 people are killed on Hanukkah in Australia by a Jewhating gunman. The first response I saw today, to this attack, was.
"If Israel didn't exist, this wouldn't have happened, they shouldn't have supported an evil nation."
No empathy, no remorse, and at time of writing, no knowledge that this attack is even connected to Israel in any way. The shooter may have been a White supremacist, it may have been a Leftist, yet in the fog they still say that this attack isn't an atrocity, that because "Israel" it could even be justified. I am appaled, and finally this is the straw thats broken me.
People are dead, lots have died already the Left either not caring or actively going out and committing the acts of violence needed. But following the defense of Chomsky, following more dead in Ukraine that the Left doesn't even care about anymore, following more threats to Canadian sovereignty which especially the American left has responded to by stating "Its not all of us, please come back and give us your tourist dollars we miss you.". Following more dead Jews, the end of USAID and the millions it will kill over the next decade that some have justified (Its ending dependence on the evil American empire hur dur). I'm done, the responses to the attack in Australia are the straw that broke my back. This political faction no longer holds my values.
I'm a humanist, and anti-authoritarian and principled about it. The left seems to have devolved into a bunch of authoritarian, Jewhating shit bags who just want to watch the world burn, damn the people whose lives will be ruined. If you want to find me, I'll be over here, supporting Ukraine, fervently calling for a two-state solution, an end to Hamas and for Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping, Netanyahu, Viktor Orban, Ibrahim TraorĂŠ and every other aspiring fascist who craves mastery to face justice at the hands of the international courts, or their own people.
And as for the Left, the attack in Australia is what you called for, "Globalize the intifada" right? Own up to it, celebrate it like I know you want to. It'll make it all the more easier to spot those I need to avoid like the plague when I'm doing real political work.
Slava Ukraini! Heroiam slava!
