READ PART I: “Defending Gaza (Part I): Natural-Law Principles Vs. National-Interest Statism” Israel is engaged in the mother of all performative contradictions: denying genocide, while committing genocide, all the while demanding the right to genocide. The Jewish State is genocidal not because it has been denounced as “genocidal” by ostensible “antisemites” and “terrorist sympathizers,” but by virtue of its actions. Israel is genocidal by virtue of what it has done to Gaza, the people and their land. Shortly after October 7, 2023, conceptions of vice and virtue were crystalized like never before. It was then that certain self-evident truths became … Continue reading Defending Gaza (II): Israel Indicted, Palestinians Validated In Fact, Law & Hoppean Argumentation