Ignoring the message of the famed fable, the West welcomes the predator that will satiate its appetite on the unsuspecting gullible.
By Grant Gochin
The West, like Little Red Riding Hood, now courts its own destruction, inviting in a wolf it refuses to recognize. The timeless European fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood – a story of a naïve girl and a cunning wolf from before the 17th century – teaches an eternal lesson: those who embrace predators weave their own noose. History repeats this warning across civilizations, yet humanity rarely heeds it. This tale, as old as time, remains perpetually relevant.
FROM MICRO-AGRESSION TO ANTISEMETISM
The West teeters on the edge of civilizational collapse, undone by moral cowardice and intellectual decay. The October 7, 2023, genocidal attacks on Israel by Hamas exposed the existential threat of Islamism. Yet, instead of rallying in defense of its values, the West equivocated, complied, or even celebrated the atrocities. Its younger generation, once obsessed with policing micro-aggressions, has pivoted to endorsing antisemitism, reviving ancient blood libels under the guise of social justice. By importing Islamism, submitting to its cultural demands, and amplifying its propaganda, the West is dismantling itself, ceding power to an ideology that despises its freedoms. Betraying its children, history, and nations, the West places its neck on the chopping block, inviting a conquest it refuses to resist.
CAPITULATING TO ISLAMISM
The October 7 attacks – a barbaric display of Islamist violence – should have galvanized the West to defend its principles. Instead, it responded with moral relativism: marches in major cities glorified the massacre, universities hosted panels justifying terrorism, and media outlets framed Israel’s defensive actions as the true crime. Islamism rejects the West’s cherished values – free expression, open debate, individual liberty, and women’s rights – not through misunderstanding but through deliberate exploitation, using these freedoms as tools to infiltrate and destabilize. Yet, the West not only tolerates this ideology – it imports it, obeys its demands, and amplifies its propaganda, from cries of “anti-colonialism” to anti-Israel vitriol.
This is not mere naiveté but a deliberate choice to prioritize comfort over truth. The West dresses its cowardice in the language of tolerance, acceding to Islamist cultural demands that erode the freedoms defining it. By welcoming its own colonization, it hands power to an ideology bent on subjugation, ignoring the blood-soaked consequences.
FROM MICRO-AGGESSSIONS TO MACRO-HATRED – A GENERATION UNMOORED
The West’s younger generation leads this self-destruction. Once fixated on rooting out micro-aggressions – petty slights like misgendered pronouns or cultural insensitivities treated as moral outrages – they now chant genocidal slogans against Jews and parrot anti-Israel rhetoric. Nurtured in universities prioritizing feelings over facts and amplified by social media echo chambers, they lack the resilience to face real-world complexities. Their seamless shift from policing words to endorsing violence reveals a chilling moral bankruptcy. Raised to equate disagreement with violence and emotions with truth, they are ill-equipped for genuine crises—be it economic collapse, war, or ideological assault.
This leap from whining about micro-aggressions to justifying macro-aggressions like the October 7 atrocities shows how easily their moral compass is hijacked. They champion causes without scrutiny, vilifying dissenters while ignoring Hamas’s genocidal intent or Israel’s struggle for survival. Their fragility leaves them vulnerable to manipulation by adversaries exploiting the West’s openness. By rejecting reason and embracing mob-driven narratives, they betray their own future, handing the reins to forces that will dismantle their freedoms. Like the frog in The Scorpion and the Frog, they ignore timeless warnings, foolishly believing human nature has changed. They alone will bear the consequences of their folly.
ANTISEMITISM’S ENDURING GRIP – A HISTORICAL CONTINUIM
The West’s failure to condemn the October 7 atrocities and its eagerness to amplify anti-Israel narratives are not isolated lapses but a resurgence of millennia-old antisemitism, repackaged for today. From medieval blood libels accusing Jews of poisoning wells to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, every era has justified its hatred with self-righteous zeal. Today’s accusations of Israeli apartheid or genocide are merely the latest chapter. The West embraces these falsehoods not because they are true but because they are convenient, allowing it to posture as morally superior while indulging historical scapegoating and malice.
Every blood libel was justified by the perpetrator’s belief in their virtue – Crusaders, Inquisitors, Nazis all claimed justice. Today’s apologists for Hamas or Hezbollah are no different, marching under “liberation” banners while ignoring the rape, murder and mutilation of Jews. The West’s refusal to name this evil – a continuation of antisemitic hatred – signals profound moral and intellectual decay. By equating Israel’s defense with its attackers’ aggression, the West abandons not just a besieged nation but the principles underpinning its own existence.
ISLAMITISM EXPLOTING THE VOID
The West’s self-inflicted wounds are a gift to its adversaries. Islamists view Western freedoms as vulnerabilities to be weaponized, using free speech to spread propaganda while offering no reciprocity. Their aim:
the destruction of Israel and the subjugation of any society valuing liberty.
The West’s failure to confront this threat, coupled with its embrace of antisemitic narratives and its granting the perpetrators recognition of a Palestinian state, creates a vacuum that Islamism eagerly fills.
The younger generation, obsessed with virtue-signaling over character-building, is uniquely susceptible. Their rejection of reason, honed in micro-aggression witch hunts, blinds them to a world where ideological hatreds ignore safe-space rules. Islamism needs only wait as the West’s internal rot – fueled by a generation celebrating fragility over fortitude – does its work. By importing and obeying Islamism, the West enthusiastically hands the reins to its conquerors.
BEACON OF RESILIENCE – ISRAEL’S YOUTH
Contrast this with Israel’s youth, forged in the crucible of existential threats. Facing rocket barrages, terrorist attacks, and global condemnation, they respond with unyielding resolve. Military service instills discipline and sacrifice; debates are grounded in facts, not feelings. They’ve built a thriving tech sector and a culture of innovation despite relentless hostility. They don’t dwell on micro-aggressions because they know real aggression – burned homes, murdered families, and an ideology seeking their annihilation. Israeli youth understand freedom is not a given but a prize earned through vigilance. Their clarity and strength ensure Israel’s future burns bright, a testament to what a society can achieve when it rejects despair and delusion.
A SELF-INFLICTED CONQUEST – THE WEST’S DESTINY
By ceding power to an ideology that rejects its core principles of democracy and individual rights, the West invites its own colonization in this unchanging nature of civilization of conquest and domination. Only this time, the West places its neck on the chopping block, embracing enthusiastic self-immolation. The consequences will not be confined to Israel’s borders. Emboldened by Western weakness, Islamists will not stop at Jews; their ideology views all of Western civilization as an enemy.
The West has forgotten Little Red Riding Hood and The Scorpion and the Frog. The wolf is inside, and for Europe, it may already be too late to close the door. By the time virtue-signalers recognize their folly, they will be victims of the monster they enabled. Beware the fool who opens the door to the wolf, for in their virtue, they burn their own house to ash. They have only themselves to blame.
In its misguided pursuit of virtue, the West has undermined its own foundations, betrayed Israel by endorsing and supporting its enemies, and hindered Israel’s ability to defend itself, leaving it to face the wolves alone. Yet Israel, with its resilience and clarity, will endure and thrive. The West, however, will grapple with the consequences of its choices, left to lament its self-inflicted wounds. Those who cling to illusions rather than embrace courage have chosen their own future with their eyes wide open, and their plight will not be Israel’s or America’s burden to bear.
About the writer:
Grant Arthur Gochin currently serves as the Honorary Consul for the Republic of Togo. He is the Emeritus Special Envoy for Diaspora Affairs for the African Union, which represents the fifty-five African nations, and Emeritus Vice Dean of the Los Angeles Consular Corps, the second largest Consular Corps in the world. Gochin is actively involved in Jewish affairs, focusing on historical justice. He has spent the past twenty five years documenting and restoring signs of Jewish life in Lithuania. He has served as the Chair of the Maceva Project in Lithuania, which mapped / inventoried / documented / restored over fifty abandoned and neglected Jewish cemeteries. Gochin is the author of “Malice, Murder and Manipulation”, published in 2013. His book documents his family history of oppression in Lithuania. He is presently working on a project to expose the current Holocaust revisionism within the Lithuanian government. Professionally, Gochin is a Certified Financial Planner and practices as a Wealth Advisor in California, where he lives with his family. Personal site: https://www.grantgochin.com/
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