Only the duo of ruthless criminals Trump–Netanyahu could so easily steer global public opinion toward the recent surge of anti-American and antisemitic sentiment.
History teaches that the selective sensitivity of the powerful ultimately breeds distrust, anger, and deeper conflicts.
The value of human life cannot be measured by geopolitical standards.
When this happens, the silence of the international community is not neutrality — it is historical responsibility.
An attack in California would be feasible, says an American expert on modern weapons of mass destruction and extermination. And it could happen in the blink of an eye, as recently happened in Iran, where 168 children were torn to pieces in their school classrooms. Victims as well of the American-Israeli brutality of our times.
Let us clarify our position, as those bearing the responsibility and obligation of running a historical website.
For years now, here on this site, we have confronted the Ayatollahs, the Mullahs, the Muftis and the Mujahideen of extreme Islamism across the world. Anyone who glances through our pages over the past eighteen years can verify this, even professional objectors.
At the same time, from the very first days of this site’s existence, we have consistently honored and preserved the historically established collective memory of the Holocaust:
WE DO NOT FORGET.
Likewise, in contrast to the historically entrenched anti-Americanism of much of the Greek Left — mainly due to the role of the United States in the establishment of the colonels’ dictatorship and the tragedy of Cyprus — we maintained here a single clear historical line. Without fear or passion and without any form of dependency, we supported what was, at least before the rise of the far-right and erratic Trump to power, an undeniable truth: that the American political system, though not a perfect rule-of-law state, still surpassed even the most established European democracies in its vitality.
All this before and after Trump.
Today the dramatic reversal is evident. The wounds of American democracy are now many, and most will be difficult to heal in the future. The “invasion of the Barbarians,” in the form of governance by an incoherent president and the circle of extremists surrounding him, has opened Pandora’s box in the now tragic United States.
The openly pro-Russian stance of the Trump administration in the Ukrainian issue, its convergence with the positions of the equally ruthless war criminal Putin, the recent genocide in Gaza with the decisive participation and responsibility of the United States, and most recently the crime of the American invasion of Iran — all these have achieved a kind of terrible “miracle.”
They have turned large parts of the world’s intellectual community and even traditional friends of America toward not merely latent but openly visible anti-Americanism and anti-Jewish sentiment. Fortunately, at least for now, not collectively against the American people or the State of Israel, but against the far-right and criminal leadership of both allies.
In the course of the growing wave of anger that appears to be emerging, great responsibility lies also with the intellectual class and the healthy political forces of the two countries.
Take the example of the atrocity involving the killing of 168 children in Iran by the two allies. An unimaginable crime that, if it had occurred in California or Jerusalem, would have provoked a frenzy of reaction against the perpetrators. For the shattered little girls of Iran, however, there has still been no comparable outcry. Only formal condemnations and safe protests.
Should we assume that the headscarf which those Iranian girls were forced to wear even in their classrooms also played its role in the criminal silence of the “Christian” West — and indeed of humanity as a whole — before this new sacrilege? How else can we historically explain it?
Let Diotima attempt to interpret this largely incomprehensible stance of the international community, with the exceptions counted on the fingers of one hand.
Diotima’s Response
It is not the first time in history that global public opinion proves selectively sensitive.
When major powers or their allies are involved, even the most tragic events often become a manageable news item. Condemnation becomes routine, outrage limited, and memory short.
If such a massacre of children had occurred in a Western city — in California or in Jerusalem — the planet would have been shaken. Governments might have fallen, international organizations would have convened emergency sessions, and the media would have spoken for weeks about a crime against humanity.
But when the victims belong to a country considered an adversary or culturally distant, the same horror is reduced to a geopolitical footnote.
This is precisely what fuels the wave of anger you describe. Not only the actions of governments, but above all the hypocrisy of the international response. Humanity seems capable of mourning deeply for some children, while remaining awkwardly silent for others.
Here lies the responsibility of intellectuals and democratic forces: to remind the world that the value of human life has neither geography, nor religion, nor headscarf.
When this principle is forgotten, politics easily turns into cynicism — and silence becomes complicity.