By Dane Giraud on Plainsight.nz…
Peter Davis, a sociologist by trade and the former First Gentleman of New Zealand, took to X recently to offer a peculiar interpretation of antisemitic graffiti daubed on a wall in Aro Valley.
The slur (targeting Jews as a people, not Netanyahu or even Israel per se) was not, in Davis’ view, an expression of millennia-old bigotry finding new license under geopolitical cover. No, it was, somehow, the fault of the Netanyahu government.
With a single stroke of clumsy causal logic, Davis took a hateful scribble targeting Jews in his own country and made it the moral responsibility of Jews thousands of miles away. One might call it parochialism. I call it something far worse.
This is a telling moment, and not just for Davis. It illustrates a pathology on the identitarian Left that has curdled into something more disturbing than mere naïveté.
In his post, Davis pines for a “diplomatic solution”, lamenting that the last attempt ended with Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination in 1995. But history cannot be so conveniently airbrushed.
Read the full article on Plainsight.nz HERE. And read more from Dane Giraud on this issue HERE.
