Author Roasts Literary Event For Asking Her Thoughts On Israel-Palestine War

Dina Rubina, an Israeli author, is not having it with those who are seeking to make moral equivalencies between Israel and Hamas terrorists in Gaza.

And she took the opportunity presented to her by a London-based literary event to put those seeking to "cancel" her in their place. Quadrant Online reported on a letter sent to Rubina by the Pushkin House, a cultural center in London, which is set to host an online event in collaboration with the University of London. The letter, from moderator Nataliya Rulyova, asks Rubina what her "position" on the conflict between Israel and Hamas is, and Rubina did not hold back.

"The Pushkin House announced our upcoming conference on social media and immediately received critical messages regarding your position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the emailed question reads. "They wanted to understand your position on this issue before responding. Could you formulate your position and send it to me as soon as possible?"

Rubina responded by describing the horrors of October 7th, and the years of terrorist activity waged against Israel: "For hours, thousands of happy, blood-drunk beasts raped women, children and men, shooting their victims in the crotch and heads, cutting off the women’s breasts and playing football with them, cutting off the babies from the wombs of pregnant women and immediately decapitating them, tying up and burning the small children. There were so many charred bodies that, for many weeks, forensic pathologists could not cope with the enormous workload of identifying individuals."

And as she correctly identifies, for some inexplicable reason, the "academy community" is proudly uninterested in these victims. Even immediately after the horrific attacks.

"It goes without saying that these victims, who continue to be mocked, are of little concern to the 'academic community,'" Rubina wrote.

She then pointed out the hypocrisy of those same academics who have little interest in condemning other massacres committed by similar groups across the world.

"The academic community, which was not concerned about the massacres in Syria, nor the massacre in Somalia, nor the mistreatment inflicted on the Uighurs, nor the millions of Kurds persecuted by the Turkish regime for decades, this very worried community, which wears ‘arafatkas’ [keffiyehs], the trademark of murderers, around their necks at rallies under the slogan ‘Liberate Palestine from the river to the sea’, which means the total destruction of Israel (and Israelis). ‘Academics’, as polls show, have no idea where this river is, what it is called, where certain borders are located."

Wonder why!

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Israel Gets Criticism Other Countries Don't

Rubina closed with an exceptionally profound statement of disregard for the opinions of the academy and "intellectual" community.

"Now, with great pleasure, without choosing my expressions too much, I sincerely and with all the strength of my soul send to all the brainless ‘intellectuals’ who are interested in my position to go f*** themselves."

That about sums it up perfectly.

While an isolated example, this incident encapsulates how modern academic discussions so often go. There is one "acceptable" position taken by far left progressives, in this case that Israel is an evil "oppressor" figure, likely due to being viewed as "white" by the international left, and any actions against it are justified. Any deviation from that pre-determined script is viewed as unacceptable heresy.

Made even more unacceptable when respondents bring up the atrocities committed by groups the political left aligns with. Because those groups are not labaled "oppressors" by the delusional progressive class.

Rubina's response is the correct one; do not back down from telling the truth, and treating with disdain and contempt efforts by extremists to make moral equivalencies where they do not exist.