While the West is losing its moral compass, Israel alone takes a stand to fight against evil, writes Giulio Meotti:

The West is atoning uninterruptedly, infected by the idea that evil can come only from its own ranks, while the rest of the world is motivated by sympathy, kindness, and purity. . . . Europe stopped fighting [for its values] a long time ago. . . . Writers and intellectuals are mute, as if they have lost the ability to say the truth.

There is only one nation on earth fighting evil and giving a meaning to the word “civilization”—not good manners, but a hierarchy of values. That nation is the Jewish state of Israel. This is one of the last bastions of humanity. You see this not only in Israel’s willingness to fight just wars against people who bring only destruction and pain in this world. You see it in Israel through the intensity of its people’s devotion to a higher meaning. Only Israel today offers some hope for mankind, something that can enable us to maintain faith in human values under an unprecedented moral collapse.

Two extraordinary events demonstrate something important about Israel’s most fervent adversaries. One was a speech given at something called The People’s Forum (funded generously by Goldman Sachs), which stated, “When the state of Israel is finally destroyed and erased from history, that will be the single most important blow we can give to destroying capitalism and imperialism.”

The suggestion that this tiny state is the linchpin of a global, centuries-old phenomenon like capitalism goes well beyond anything resembling rational criticism. Even if Israel were guilty of genocide, apartheid, and oppression—which of course it is not—it would not follow that its destruction would help end capitalism or imperialism.

The other was an anti-Israel protest that took place in front of New York City’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, deemed “complicit” in Israel’s evils. At organizers’ urging, participants shouted their slogans at kids in the cancer ward, who were watching from the windows. Given Hamas’s indifference toward the lives of Gazan children, such callousness toward non-Palestinian children from Hamas’s Western allies shouldn’t be surprising. The protest—like the abovementioned speech—deliberately conveyed the message that Israel is the ultimate evil and its destruction the ultimate good, cancer patients be damned.

The fact that Israel’s adversaries are almost comically perverse does not mean that they can be dismissed. If its allies fail to understand the obsessive and irrational hatred that it faces, they cannot effectively help it defend itself.