Why the Gaza War narrative has taken over the left
These days, you can't mention a tragic event like the Oklahoma City bombing or the JetSet Club collapse without a chorus of people screaming "Gaza has it worse." It's become one of the main focuses of the left. Other far worse situations are either ignored or explained away.
This obsession fits the Christian redemption story that the western left abandoned and needs to replace with a secular version. We're taught that by living in the west, we've inherited the "original sins" of racism, colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, environmental destruction, and other "sins" we can't escape. So the secular "salvation" is through the suffering of the innocent, Christ-like Palestinians, who take the place of Jesus by literally "dying for our sins" at the hands of the Jews, who are also guilty of killing the original Jesus. By elevating "free Palestine" to a sacred cause and opposing "Zionism," the liberal westerner is absolved of sin, the same way his Christian forbears were absolved by accepting Jesus and rejecting Satan.
This obsession fits the Christian redemption story that the western left abandoned and needs to replace with a secular version. We're taught that by living in the west, we've inherited the "original sins" of racism, colonialism, white supremacy, capitalism, environmental destruction, and other "sins" we can't escape. So the secular "salvation" is through the suffering of the innocent, Christ-like Palestinians, who take the place of Jesus by literally "dying for our sins" at the hands of the Jews, who are also guilty of killing the original Jesus. By elevating "free Palestine" to a sacred cause and opposing "Zionism," the liberal westerner is absolved of sin, the same way his Christian forbears were absolved by accepting Jesus and rejecting Satan.
