In condemning the killing of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, few considered we aren’t the ones who have murdered 15,000 children. We haven’t dropped the equivalent of five Hiroshima A-bombs on a concentration camp. We haven’t perpetrated one of the worst wars of extermination in modern history. But we are being ordered to sympathize with two génocidaires as if they are peace-loving innocents.

No one has to support Elias Rodriguez, who allegedly shot the employees. But condemning his actions plays into the fascist agenda to rebrand protected free speech and ideas as terrorism.

We must stop groveling before the barbarians in power. They are the ones without a shred of humanity. Our only crime is protesting the genocide and calling for a secular democratic state for all people in Palestine in place of the Zionist pox on humanity.

Arun Gupta