RUTHFULLY YOURS

In the future, when humanity comes to its senses, 2024 will be seen as a watershed year in the battle against fascism. More fascist-adjacent killers and loons were bumped off over the past 12 months than in any other year in my lifetime. From the leader of an army of anti-Semites that tells its followers to buy cheap knives and ‘cut off the heads of Jews’ (Yahya Sinwar) to the spiritual head of a self-styled ‘Party of God’ that longs to excise those ‘cancerous’ Jews from the Middle East (Hassan Nasrallah), it’s been a rough year for neo-fascist nuts. And about time, too.

2024 is the year anti-fascism grew up. For years, ‘anti-fascism’ was the weekend hobby of bored rich kids. To say the masked wimps of ‘antifa’ gave anti-fascism a bad name is an understatement. They dragged its name into the gutter. Under their black-clad purview, anti-fascism entailed little more than shouting ‘BITCH’ at women who don’t want to see dicks in their changing rooms, weeping on the campus lawn whenever Ben Shapiro showed up, and having fisticuffs with working-class people who voted for Trump. The men of the Normandy landings and the International Brigades will have turned in their graves at the sight of these toytown radicals throwing milkshakes at ‘rednecks’ and calling it anti-fascism.

Now, thankfully, anti-fascism means something again. Largely courtesy of Israel’s war on the Jew-hating belligerents at its borders, a real fight with fascism has replaced the neurotic street theatrics of the affluent activist class that falsely called itself anti-fascism. Sure, these people might have slapped Richard Spencer once, but the IDF has throttled entire movements that were founded with the expressly fascistic intention to kill Jews and erase their homeland.

This year we bid adieu to Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza; the man widely suspected of being the architect of 7 October, the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust. It seems likely that Mohammed Deif was also hurried off this mortal coil by the IDF. He was the leader of the al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, which did so much of the raping and butchering on 7 October.

Many other Hamas gunmen were despatched – up to 17,000. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that this gutting of an army whose founding covenant committed it to a ‘very great and very serious… struggle against the Jews’ is better anti-fascism than emptying a can of soup on gender-critical activist Posie Parker. Hamas has made good on its genocidal loathing countless times in recent years, murdering hundreds and hundreds of Jews on buses, in nightclubs, at music festivals, in their own homes. Israel’s war on Hamas, in defiance of the faint-hearted bourgeoisie of the Western world who’ve spent the past year cravenly calling on the Jewish State to cease fire, is a blow to modern fascism and a boon for humanity.

Then there’s Hezbollah. This terroristic army is on death’s door at the end of 2024. The IDF got rid of its spiritual figurehead, Hassan Nasrallah, a man who said he wanted to ‘finish off the entire cancerous Zionist project’. Jews as cancer – classic fascism. And if there were to be any Jews left following our genocidal crusade, then they ‘can go back to Germany, or wherever they came from’, Hezbollah said. The violent repatriation of a whole ‘problematic’ race – that’s a Nazi-level dream.

And now it’s turned into a nightmare for Hezbollah. For the ‘cancer’ fought back. Following ceaseless Hezbollah strikes on northern Israel, the IDF decided to confront Hezbollah head-on. They took out Nasrallah, and then his replacement, Hashem Safieddine, alongside virtually the entire leadership. And they incapacitated many Hezbollah footsoliders, too, via the extraordinary pagers operation: thousands of mini exploding Trojan horses planted right in the pockets of these taunters of the Jewish nation. The end result? Hezbollah is ‘decapitated and in disarray’, in the words of Sky News. To such an extent that they couldn’t even help Bashar al-Assad this time round, meaning his ruthless regime became collateral damage in Israel’s war on its hateful foes.

Our very own ‘antifa’ must have welcomed these blows against fascistic militants, right? Not a bit of it. They moaned and grieved. They called it terrorism. They wept more for the blown-off bollocks of Hezbollah militants than they did for the 12 Druze kids Hezbollah had killed six weeks earlier. It’s a strange anti-fascist who shows greater concern for a fascist’s testicles than he does for innocent kids. The people who spent the past decade tweeting ‘The only good fascist is a dead fascist’ were now blubbing into their macchiatos upon hearing that the racist killers of Jews had got their comeuppance.

This is the dark irony of the activist class’s noisy denunciation of Israel as Nazi-like – Israel has done more to reprimand neo-fascism than these people ever will. Indeed, as Israel took the fight to fascistic gunmen, these fake anti-fascists were going on hate marches at which people openly called for further jihad against the Jewish nation, for the ‘army of Muhammad’ to come back and finish off the Jews, and for Israel to be excised ‘from the river to the sea’. As Israel fought fascists, you mingled with them – own that, leftists. From antifa to… well, fa. What a ride 2024 was.