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Judith Butler has always been an anti-Zionist. And as early as 2006, the 68-year-old philosopher, who teaches in Berkeley, California, described the two Islamist terrorist organizations Hamas and Hezbollah as “part of the global left.” So it shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that… a video appeared on the “X” platform, in which Butler sees the bloody massacre of October 7th, in which Hamas murdered around 1,200 people, as an “act of armed resistance” – even if she herself was in one a few months ago Essay had emphasized that nothing could exonerate the militia from responsibility for their “horrible murders.”
The video currently circulating was recorded last Sunday at a Middle East conference organized by left-wing radical groups in the Paris suburb of Pantin. Butler explained to a large audience there that although one could have “different views” about Hamas as a “political party” and about “armed resistance,” the “uprising” was neither a terrorist nor an anti-Semitic attack acted. Unfounded claims, as just a look at the founding charter of the terrorist organization proves: There the Islamists openly call for the killing of all Jews. Why Butler, herself Jewish and involved in Jewish philosophy and ethics since a young age, denies such obvious hatred of Jews can probably only be explained by massive ideological delusion. One can only hope that the theorist, who became a queer icon with her work “The Unease of the Genders” (1990), does not exert even more influence on the left.
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