We can rest easily, folks: The inaptly named United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has closely examined the aftermath of Hamas’ attack on Israel and found the culprit: It was settler colonialism and capitalism what done it! In a masterful mishmash of leftist gibberish, the report assumes Israel’s culpability and combines antisemitism with hostility to free markets. The report should make Americans happy that the U.S. has disengaged from the UNHRC and bears no responsibility for its actions.

Forget Hamas, It’s All About Settler-Colonialism and Racial Capitalism

“The role of corporate entities in sustaining the illegal Israeli occupation and its ongoing genocidal campaign in Gaza is the subject of the present investigative report, which is focused on how corporate interests underpin the Israeli settler-colonial twofold logic of displacement and replacement aimed at dispossessing and erasing Palestinians from their lands,” asserts Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, in the introduction to the July 3 report. The document concludes, in part: “The enduring ideological, political and economic engine of racial capitalism has transformed the Israeli displacement-replacement economy of occupation into an economy of genocide.”

The report comes over a year and a half after the brutal October 7 invasion of Israel by Hamas terrorists during which, as the Congressional Research Service summarizes, “more than 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals (including 46 U.S. citizens in Israel) were killed…and Hamas and other groups also seized some 251 hostages.” The report references “October 2023” 30 times, but in a bizarre way. That date somehow becomes a mysterious turning point during which Israel and its corporate capitalist accessories became pointlessly meaner than ever towards the seemingly peaceful people of Gaza.

“Had proper human rights due diligence been undertaken, corporate entities would have long ago disengaged from Israeli occupation,” the report asserts. “Instead, post-October 2023, corporate actors have contributed to the acceleration of the displacement-replacement process throughout the military campaign that has pulverized Gaza and displaced the largest number of Palestinians in the West Bank since 1967.”

“Hamas” is mentioned only as part of the URL in a link to a Washington Post story in a footnote. There is no mention of “hostages.” The word “antisemitism” is used exactly one time, in a dismissive manner when Albanese “acknowledges the vi

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