日光驱散魔法

n November 2023, as Israeli politicians and journalists blurted out their fantasies of mass extermination, the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas co-authored a statement titled “Principles of Solidarity.” Incensed by criticism of Israel, he and his collaborators insisted that the country’s assault on Palestinians was “justified in principle.” Two years later, as Israel makes a mockery of the ceasefire in Gaza, the last surviving great European thinker has sunken into a complicit silence, and other pillars of the postwar West are not faring better. The evidence from the last months is overwhelming. …