After the savage attacks of October 7th, the final hostages have at last returned home, and the war has drawn to its long-awaited close. Thanks to the political genius and statesmanship of President Trump, the remarkable diplomatic perseverance of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, and the unmatched bravery of the IDF soldiers, we are entering a period of peace—one that, with prudence and moral clarity, may yet prove durable. Hamas is being gradually disarmed and dismantled in the Gaza Strip, which it once controlled over half of—an unmistakable sign of victory that will ultimately benefit the Gazans themselves, as they now have a chance to be freed from the grip of a genocidal cult that has held them hostage for nearly two decades.
What I have outlined here are simply the facts—nothing more, nothing less. Not an opinion, not an interpretation, not a spin. Facts: the record of a protracted and brutal war launched by Hamas against Israeli civilians who had long believed in the possibility of coexistence. Yet, apparently, facts no longer matter. We are living not in an age of truth but of narrative, where perception trumps reality and emotion eclipses reason. Objective reality has become insufficient to inspire collective action in the name of social justice or anti-colonial liberation. Instead, we have entered an era of moral blackmail, intellectual bullying, and post-factual radicalism—all of which coalesce under the banner of what now calls itself the Palestinianist movement.
The moral hysteria surrounding the genocide allegations against Israel revealed the astonishing depth of this ideological decay. We witnessed how politically motivated propaganda permeated the minds of countless young and progressive individuals—many of whom never paused to ask a single question about the veracity of the claims they were repeating with such confidence and zeal. The legitimization of Hamas narratives by respected institutions, human rights organizations, international courts, and academic associations has only deepened the crisis and undermined what little remained of institutional integrity.
The International Criminal Court, the United Nations commissions of inquiry, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, Genocide Watch, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and even Médecins Sans Frontières—many of these have become, wittingly or not, political instruments rather than defenders of truth. Some have degenerated into little more than activist fronts for ideological warfare. The absurdity reached a grotesque height when it was revealed that the International Association of Genocide Scholars, for a mere thirty-dollar membership fee, allowed individuals to join under names such as Adolf Hitler, Emperor Palpatine, and even Cookie Monster. Such farce exposes the utter erosion of institutional seriousness—the collapse of the very idea of scholarly rigor.
The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention offers another sobering example. Having appropriated the name of Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jewish jurist who coined the term genocide, without the consent of his family, it stands today as a front for far-left activism masquerading as moral advocacy. In 2024, Raphael Lemkin’s relative, the American lawyer Joseph Lemkin, as well as the family of the Polish-born jurist, addressed a formal letter to Governor Shapiro objecting to this grotesque misuse of his family’s legacy and threatening legal action should the deception persist. This episode illustrates not only moral confusion but the broader intellectual corruption that has infected the global discourse on justice and rights.
What unites these organizations is their near-total reliance on secondary information emanating from Gaza—a territory whose communications have been tightly controlled and manipulated by Hamas. That fact alone should disqualify their claims from serious consideration. Yet the opposite has occurred. Lies have been elevated to the level of international discourse, while truth has been subordinated to ideology. The inversion of moral logic is breathtaking: those who murder children are portrayed as victims, while those who defend their citizens are denounced as aggressors.
The danger could not be clearer. We are witnessing the revival of blood libel narratives aimed at delegitimizing the world’s only Jewish state—an assault that accelerates the global spread of disinformation and erodes the moral foundations of the entire human rights enterprise. Authoritarian regimes continue to brutalize their citizens—Russia under Vladimir Putin, Hamas in Gaza, Iran across its proxies—while the very institutions tasked with documenting real atrocities busy themselves with condemning the only democratic state in the Middle East. It is a grotesque inversion of moral order, a triumph of hypocrisy over justice, and a symptom of the wider decay of Western moral imagination.
Yet even amid this moral twilight, there are signs of a gathering dawn. The bold and morally luminous decision of the Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize to María Corina Machado marked a profound shift in the moral atmosphere. Machado—who courageously stood with Israel and publicly praised President Trump for preventing countless conflicts within mere months—embodies a revival of moral clarity in an age of confusion. Voices like hers can help restore the integrity of human rights advocacy, rescuing it from the far left’s ideological capture and returning it to its rightful moral foundation. She symbolizes a renewal of courage, conscience, and conviction in a time when moral cowardice too often masquerades as compassion.
For human rights and natural rights, properly understood, are not postmodern abstractions. They are the offspring of Judeo-Christian ethics, born from a civilization that believes in the sanctity of life, the dignity of the individual, and the divine origin of freedom itself. To sever these roots is to invite moral collapse. To defend them is to ensure that truth, not ideology, once again governs the conscience of humanity.
Source: María Corina Machado dedicates Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump
Ziya H. is a Contributor for Liberty Affair. Based in Warsaw, Poland, he writes about geopolitics, culture, and technology. Follow his latest insights on X: @hsnlizi.
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