Why truth doesn’t matter anymore

If you wanted to define truth, perhaps the best way to describe it would be to say – truth is “what is” as opposed to what you’d like it to be.

Once, everyone accepted certain empirical facts, based on irrefutable evidence, such as the sky is blue, a day is made up of 24 hours, and whatever you witnessed with your eyes happened. Unfortunately, the latter of those three examples can often be problematic if what you saw contradicts your political ideology. 

But there’s an easy fix. Just deny the truth! What difference does it make? When the narrative is placed above all else, truth must be altered to preserve the delusion.  

So, whether it takes lying or embracing relativism, the doctrine that truth and morality can be adapted to fit the culture or society, making it malleable and not absolute, its preferrable rather than recognizing undeniable truth. 

That is the situation we’re witnessing these days. One perfect example of this was a J-TV (The Global Jewish Channel) clip where a panel of pro and anti-Israel guests each gave their take on how they view the Jewish homeland.  

Moderating the panel was Mehdi Hasan, a British-American broadcaster and journalist who, himself is antagonistic towards Israel, Diana Buttu, a Palestinian Canadian lawyer and former spokesperson for the Palestinian Liberation Organization and Emmanuel Navon, Israeli political scientist and lecturer at Tel Aviv University and Benny Morris, Israeli historian.

The problem was that the opinions were complete polar opposites, meaning that someone’s truth was a manufactured version, intended to put forth an account, furthering their desired viewpoint. 

Here’s how it went down. First to speak was Diana Buttu, asked by the moderator to give her take on the “genocide,” claim, previously labeled as an absurd accusation by Benny Morris.  

Beginning by calling Morris a genocide denier and apologist, she attempted to bolster her position by relying upon the assessments of multiple human rights organizations, all of whom have defined Israel’s military defense, following the October 7th massacre, as a genocide. Further trying to cement “her truth,” Buttu invoked the ICJ’s (International Court of Justice) findings, who asserted that there was a “plausible case” for genocide. 

Feeling very confident of the word of those moral giants, she asked, “How are we to believe the Israelis, who are the only ones claiming that it was not a genocide?”

Right there, in that brief opening, we are already given a biased perspective based upon anti-Israel organizations whose conclusions are wholly based upon the lies of terrorists and Jew haters.  In what world would they ever paint us in a good light? 

From there, she characterizes Israel as a colonizer, a gross distortion which is undetected by ignorant individuals with no historical framework of the Middle East or even the desire to research whether those bogus claims hold water – which they don’t.  

Since the definition of a colonizer is a country which sends settlers to a place to establish political control over it, that immediately disqualifies Israel, the indigenous land of the Jewish people. 

Returning to the land, promised to them by Almighty God cannot validate the falsehood that they are occupying Muslim land, especially given the fact that Islam was established thousands of years later.  

Buttu continues her diatribe against Israel by referring to it as Palestinian land which was stolen, and the resultant bloodshed which took Palestinian lives as a consequence. The small detail, unmentioned, by her, is that Israel was immediately attacked by five Arab countries the moment it became a nation in 1948. 

Since then, the loss of Arab lives can only be blamed on the many wars, waged by them against the Jewish state, right up until this very day. Short of Israel not defending her citizens, when attacked, the death of Arabs is solely on their leaders. 

Nonetheless, the enthusiastic round of applause Buttu received, by the supportive anti-Israel audience was indicative of how well her propaganda was received as truth.

At that point, the moderator turned to Emmanuel Navon to ask him if he acknowledges the many voices who are critical of how Israel has prosecuted their military response in Gaza. 

It was Navon’s response which garnered the loudest hostility, along with mocking laughter, when he said that Israel is the only place in the Middle East where Arabs are free. He went on to illustrate that point by referring to Arab-Israeli citizens as having the ability to elect their officials, resulting in Arabs becoming judges in Israel’s Supreme Court, as well as president of an Israeli university.

Although those are empirical facts, which no one can deny, the next speaker, Daniel Levy, a left-wing Israeli critic, responded by castigating Navon for contradicting the “feelings” of Diana Buttu who he emphasized, “has a different experience when it comes to Israel. Levy’s contention is that Zionism has not been a good thing either for Palestinians or Jews. 

That was when Benny Morris was asked how he saw all of these differing opinions. Also citing that there is equality between Jews and Arabs, he reminded the audience that all Arab states are dictatorships which do not allow their citizens any freedom, contrasting how Israeli Arabs enjoy many rights, including an exemption from serving in the army, unlike their Jewish counterparts. The clip went on for another eight minutes, with each guest giving their viewpoints in response to one another.  

This discussion is a classic example of the way the truth is being reshaped these days in order to manipulate uneducated consumers of biased media news who are quite content to accept a tainted version of the side for whom they are rooting.

Why would they want to listen to anything else? The formidable weapon of social media’s cooperation in disseminating a sanitized reintroduction of history has been successful, because it relies upon feelings rather than facts.

Pre-disposed to cast Jews as the villains of the past and the present, antisemites have no reason to pushback on lies or the subjective emotions and sentiments of political justice warriors. Their carefully curated narrative has been expertly molded to achieve a maximum effect to powerfully manipulate audiences, based on feelings rather than facts.  

Consequently, truth cannot afford to be exposed, especially if it gets in the way of vilifying Jews. That is why it doesn’t matter anymore, because the momentum of this hatred must not be stopped!