Since 2014 the Washington Post has employed radical Leftist Karen Attiah, and she has been writing a column for the paper that focuses on all the usual race and gender BS as an award-winning “journalist” there.

I don’t have a problem with that. Radical Leftists are a dime a dozen in the MSM, and it’s not like there isn’t an endless list of woke propagandists who could easily fit into her slot.

But I was more than a little sickened by their publishing her “both-sidesism” column this weekend just days after her embracing Hamas’ terror tactics on Twitter last week.

Opinion by Karen Attiah: We cannot stand by and watch Israel commit atrocities. The United States and other global leaders must not allow Israel to carry out the collective punishment it has declared it will exact on Gaza. https://t.co/jSjoM9MH4o

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 14, 2023

Attiah’s column is pretty standard drivel, which is exactly what you would expect from a Leftist who has been caught hanging out with vile criminals and is trying to sound like the voice of reason. It makes all the right noises about deploring terrorism before turning to the evils of Israel’s self-defense.

I think there are moral arguments to be made about what tactics Israel should use to deal with the threat of Hamas. I personally think the response must be maximalist–the elimination of Hamas–but I understand the arguments for a more measured approach. Anger and lashing out are understandable, but anger isn’t a strategy. I am happy to listen to people who make rational arguments about how best to deal with the immediate problem while laying the groundwork for a potential peace at some time in the future.

Yada yada yada.

I personally doubt that this generation of Palestinians want peace with Israel, but peace should be the ultimate goal if possible. The kind of peace we got with Germany after unconditional surrender is likely the only kind possible, but peace.

With that said, everybody should laugh at the idea that Karen Attiah is a voice of reason. She is the opposite.

Attiah isn’t some moderate supporter of peace and justice. As you can see, she suggests that Israel is engaged in genocide, and as a decolonize-advocate endorses the idea that what Hamas did in Israel is what decolonizing looks like.

She’s gotten a lot of backlash, and is trying to get out of the corner she painted herself into.

But the fact is that she maintains her basic position: this is Israel’s fault, and Israel’s self-defense is oppressive.

If Attiah hadn’t compared Israel to the Nazis and implicitly embraced terrorism as the tactic of “decolonization” I could write this off. But Attiah keeps attacking Israel as genocidal, engaged in “ethnic cleansing” (Israel has Arab citizens who can vote, are members of Parliament, and allows non-citizen Palestinians to work in Israel; the Palestinian governments declare their commitment to killing all Jews, so PLEASE!), and doesn’t even acknowledge Hamas terrorism for days. When she does she makes it all about Israel’s response to barbarity.

Is this the look the Washington Post wants? Attiah is free to say it, but why is the Washington Post paying her to say it?

Hamas has declared its genocidal intent and put its principles into action.