But they are very sure about a few things that they have been taught, often for years and in many ways: that first-world nations such as the US and Israel are exploitative [colonizers] who deserve anything they get at the hands of the third-world people they’ve wronged. For this purpose, history hardly even matters. It’s a question of haves (Israel) and have-nots (Palestinians). Forget why some countries might be doing better than others – and anyway, meritocracies are bad white-privilege sorts of things that must be eradicated as well.

Once you accept the definitions, the rest follows. Just as black people cannot be guilty of racism because “powerless” people cannot be racists, and just as crimes committed by black people are explained as a reaction to being exploited, Palestinians by definition cannot be guilty. Everything they do is a result of exploitation by others more “privileged.” And even if the privileged end up looking like victims – murdered, raped, tortured – they are not, because they cannot be. They can only be oppressors.

This is the new morality.

[It’s not really a morality. This is the end result of moral relativism, which is almost antithetical to ‘morality’ in any meaningful sense. It’s the defeat of education and the triumph of mindless indoctrination on an “any means necessary” credo. — Ed]