What They’re Trying to Sell Us Under the Label of “The Intellectual Left”
Why It Always Ends in a Privilege Workshop Funded by Germany
When the Mind No Longer Meets Reality – Only The Guardian.
Once upon a time, when you said “intellectual,” you pictured someone with a mustache, sitting in a dusty library, opening thick volumes, asking deep questions, trying to understand the human condition.
Today?
An “intellectual” is someone with a subscription to Haaretz, three half-finished academic articles at the Open University, and a firm opinion on why you, living in Netivot, simply don’t understand complexity.
What Do They Claim to Sell Us?
- Critical thinking
- Historical perspective
- Universal morality
- Post-colonial responsibility
And in practice?
They are deeply critical – as long as the criticism is aimed at the Right.
They are historical – as long as history begins in 1967.
They are moral – as long as morality never requires them to show up for reserve duty.
They are universal – as long as we’re talking about Palestinian, Iranian, or Congolese rights.
Your rights? If you’re religious or patriotic?
Not part of the syllabus.
When Did You Become a Threat?
The moment you dared to love your country without irony.
The moment you raised an Israeli flag without adding a footnote apology.
The moment you voted Right – not because you’re stupid, but because you think differently.
The moment you insisted:
“I’m Jewish. That’s not an excuse – it’s an identity.”
And them?
They prefer talking about “civil society,” “narratives,” and “complex discourse.”
It sounds sophisticated – right until you ask one simple question:
“And why exactly can’t Jews live in security?”
And suddenly – the conversation evaporates.
Where Will You Find the Intellectual Left?
On campuses
Where saying “victory” is forbidden,
but hanging a Palestinian flag in the name of “dialogue” is enlightened.
In foundations and NGOs
Where policy papers explain why the IDF must “soften its operational discourse,”
as if Hezbollah will be moved by gender-neutral terminology.
In their op-eds
Every article begins with:
“Understanding the psycho-colonial root of the conflict…”
and ends with:
“…the settlements are the problem.”
In their public discourse
Which suddenly becomes “too deep,”
when you ask where they were while Jews were being butchered on October 7.
Why Is It All So Sophisticated – Yet So Completely Detached?
Because the word “complex” has become their hiding place for every fear.
Because when you say, “No, we’re not the guilty ones this time,”
you instantly become too simplistic, too provincial, too unsophisticated.
Because for them, being an intellectual means explaining
why even when someone stabs you –
it’s still somehow your fault.
But Don’t Worry – They, Too, Will Eventually Wake Up
When they stop being invited to European panels for being “a bit too Jewish.”
When a TV studio gets stormed mid-broadcast while they analyze “the situation in Gaza.”
When they realize that no apology will ever be enough,
and that a person without roots isn’t moral – just easy to uproot.
And Finally – a Rule of Thumb
If someone uses phrases like:
- “post-colonial interpretation,”
- “extra-hegemonic spaces,”
- “mediated political subjectivity,”
Know this:
They simply don’t want you to speak.
Because you embarrass them –
by understanding reality without a master’s degree in “boundary-shattering thought.”
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