It took another genocidal attack on Jewish people to reveal the vacuousness and inversion of normative paradigm in western intellectual framework. Sitting here in India, I have been watching in stunned disbelief how fancy academic jargon is being used to make an argument that at its core is as monstrous and morally repugnant as the barbaric assault inflicted on civilians by Islamist terrorists of Hamas — that the Israelis got what they deserved. It is based on a false equivalence and an onerous ‘both-siding’ — that there is no moral difference between the state of Israel and the Palestinian terrorists...