Our Gygean Age

“History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.” This aphorism aptly describes the phenomenon of Jew-hatred. Purim fell in March this year, while Israelis were engaged in an existential war against Gazan and Lebanese terrorists. The holiday commemorates the salvation of the Jews of ancient Persia from a genocide planned by an abominable man named Haman. Today, Iran—modern Persia—is a major sponsor of Islamist Hamans, including the paragliding, motorcycling murderers of Hamas. ...

The implacable enemies of the Jews are indemnified by Western governments, the media, and a human-rights regime that effectively deny to Israelis the most fundamental right: existence. To add insult to injury, they make little attempt to hide their bad faith. In Plato’s myth, the ring-wearer took pains to hide his injustice. Today’s Gygeans hardly bother with such niceties. They flaunt their hypocrisy, as if to say: “What are you going to do about it?”