The Druze are Massacred: World Silent, but Not on Its Hatred for Israel
An American Druze citizen from Oklahoma was recently brutally murdered alongside his family in Syria — executed in cold blood by the same Syrian regime forces that beheaded, raped, and massacred hundreds of Druze civilians in Sweida.
Men, women, and children were shot in the head execution-style.
These are crimes against humanity.
And yet — the world remains silent.
Not a single major news outlet has given this atrocity the attention it demands.
As of this writing, no international body called an emergency session.
The very institutions claiming to stand for human rights have looked the other way.
Because the goal, on the part of an appreciable number in the legacy, and other media — and governments — no longer seems to be about defending human rights, rather it's — about vilifying Israel.
Of note, the U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee recently observed that the United Nations has not ditributed lifesaving food supplies in Gaza, acting in response to global criticism of Israel.
While a significant part of the world fixates on demonizing the Jewish state, it conveniently ignores the ethnic cleansing of an entire minority group in Syria.
And who stood up for this Arab minority? Israel — the very nation the world routinely condemns. Israel took on an entirely separate front, risking and sacrificing for a community, others seemingly abandoned.
Israel has fought on behalf of the Druze, while already being stretched thin on a variety of security fronts.
Yet Israel's role of standing up and saving the Druze is ignored, while it's painted as a nation disrepecting human rights.
The global obsession with condemning Israel, in part, manifests in this way:
Recently, world leaders at the United Nations gathered to push for the recogniution of a Palestinian state.
The United Nations, global non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and global media have said nothing — while Israel was the only nation to respond and defend the Druze community under attack.
Was this acknowledged? Was Israel thanked?
Not once.
But Israel won’t forget.
Israel has long made it clear that "Never Again" is not just a catchy slogan, reserved only for the Jewish people. It is a clarion, moral call for all humanity.
And when the Syrian regime began slaughtering Druze civilians, Israel acted — even as the world turned its back.
At the same time, Israel continues to bear the trauma of Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas terrorists raped, burned, and murdered innocent civilians.
Yet, the global narrative has already shifted — painting Israel as the aggressor and blaming it for a famine entirely orchestrated by Hamas, which controls aid, exploits its own people, and murders dissenters.
And still — sseemingly few to no words about the recent massacre of the Druze.
Let us please recall, the seemingly absent media coverage of images depicting the massacre of the Druze on Oct. 7, 2023.
It's compelling how the media predominantly highlights images of famine in Gaza - attributed to Hamas' obstruction of food deliveries. Through all of this, Israel strives to sageguard the Druze minority.
Here too, there are seemingly no visual images, on the part of the media, showing this.
In Sweida, a Druze-majority city in Syria, the new regime — headed by a former al-Qaida leader — carried out the most brutal massacre since the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
At least 15 unarmed Druze civilians were gunned down in a wedding hall. They were not fighters. They were elders, mothers, and family members — gathered peacefully over coffee. Their only “crime” was belonging to a minority that history has too often betrayed.
Where is the outrage?
Where are the protests?
Where are the headlines?
The world, especially, as of late the media, only seem to care when Israel can be blamed.
When Jews are killed. When Druze are butchered in silence.
When minorities are massacred — it goes unnoticed unless it fits a certain political narrative.
This is not just a double standard.
This is a moral collapse.
Israel alone rushed to protect the Druze. And once again, Israel is condemned — while regimes led by terrorists commit atrocities with impunity.
Israel remembers. And Israel will not be silent.
So we ask again:
Where is the world’s conscience?
Where is justice for the Druze?
If the global community continues to ignore these horrors while obsessively vilifying Israel, it confirms what many have feared all along:
This was never about human rights.
This is about selective outrage.
This is about hate.
We will not forget, nor will we be complacent.
(Editor's Note: The preceding column is the opinion of its author.)
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