Failed 'March to Gaza' was pure absurdity - exposing the left's impotent rage

When gray-haired white liberals take to America’s streets for “No Kings” 
protests, the only danger they’re exposing themselves to is ridicule.

But what happens when progressive protesters head to a foreign war zone?

Last weekend, the “Global March to Gaza” found out.

Thousands came from wealthy European countries like Ireland and 
Luxembourg, joined by activists from the developing world as well.

They planned to get into Gaza through Egypt, evading Israel’s blockade — 
but it was the Egyptians who stopped the marchers.

It turns out the locals did not take kindly to strangers involving 
themselves in the life-or-death politics of the neighborhood.

Egyptian authorities confiscated passports and phones, arrested some of 
the marchers and gave them all the chilliest of receptions despite the 
desert heat.

Nor were the police the only ones giving the wealthy white would-be 
saviors of the Palestinians a hard time — throngs of ordinary Egyptians 
shouted abuse and tussled with the clueless do-gooders.

In Gaza itself, the marchers could have suffered far worse.

A similar effort is already in serious trouble hundreds of miles away: 
1,000 protesters from North Africa are held up in Libya, where France24 
reports they have “no access to food, water or medicine and communications 
severely disrupted” and organizers say they are under “systemic siege.”

Those pro-Palestinian activists hail from places like Algeria, Mauritania, 
Morocco and Tunisia. Now imagine the pasty faces from the “No Kings” crowd 
in that situation.

Egypt seems almost like Madison, Wis., by comparison — and Gaza makes even 
Libya seem tame.

Getting packed onto buses and deported from Egypt is the kindest thing 
that could happen to European leftists trying to tour a war zone.

Protests are inane enough in the West, but when Antifa isn’t around and 
they don’t descend into riots against law enforcement, they’re a safe 
recreational activity for liberals who want to pretend they’re “doing 
something.”

Yet outside the comfortable confines of the Western world that such 
protesters denounce as intolerably unjust, pastimes like theirs can and do 
get people killed.

Perhaps, back home in places like Luxembourg, a few of Gaza’s self-
appointed European paladins will reflect on how lucky they have it?

Maybe instead of protesting against immigration restrictions, they’ll even 
give thought to making sure Europe doesn’t become more like Egypt or 
Palestine?

No — don’t bet on that.

It’s a basic psychological trait of the Western progressive that he (or 
she, or whatever the pronoun) believes both that the West is the 
guiltiest, most racist, most imperialistic part of the world, and that 
Westerners like him (or her, etc.) understand exactly what the rest of the 
world needs — and are just the people to deliver it.

Western progressive morality is the most imperialist thing of all, 
especially when it’s posing as anti-imperialist or “anti-colonial.”

And when people like the Egyptians, who actually know a thing or two about 
suffering imperialism — and at times perpetrating it, too — tell Europe’s 
or America’s wannabe white messiahs they aren’t welcome, how do the 
protesters react?

Instead of singing a merry “99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall” on the bus 
taking them away to be deported, they can be heard in a video shared on X 
chanting, “F–k you, Israel! F–k you, Egypt!”

How dare Egyptians deport such well-meaning progressive imperialists! 

It’s as if they think it’s their country and they get to set the rules, no 
matter what enlightened Europeans feel about it.

The Egyptians have the best of reasons not to want Europe’s most naïve 
leftists marching through their territory on their way to Gaza.

Egypt can’t afford to make an enemy out of Israel at a time when Israel is 
dealing forcefully with enemies.

And Egypt can’t take in an influx of Gazans without making Gaza’s 
problems, including Hamas, its own.

But liberal meddling knows no bounds or borders, and the self-righteous 
progressives who want the world’s population to come to the United States 
and Europe also want the world’s government to cater to their WEIRD values 
— that is, “Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic.”

The WEIRD-os are wrong when they’re out on the streets of America’s 
cities.

And they’re dead wrong when they interfere in foreign crises they don’t 
understand — though thanks to the Egyptian authorities they now hate so 
much, at least this bunch isn’t simply dead.

“No kings” is an old-fashioned message; today what we need is no more 
royally entitled protesters.

Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review and 
editor-at-large of the American Conservative.


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