Kasim Hafeez is a Muslim born in England who admits he had been taught to hate Jews throughout his youth. Upon reading “The Case for Israel” by Alan Dershowitz several years ago, he was so enraged that he decided to visit that country in 2007 and expose Dershowitz for the liar that he was. Obviously a man of integrity, one able to transcend his biases and assess the world with a modicum of clarity, he quickly came to realize the narrative he had been fed was rooted in both ignorance and racism. Israel, he discovered, including those Palestinian occupied regions it has controlled since the Six Day War of 1967, is a functioning Democracy in which Christians, Jews and Muslims co-exist in relative harmony. As is typical of our species, he says, there are of course some racial tensions, but that the Jews are engaged in a genocidal attempt to eradicate the Palestinians is an egregious lie ironically manifest in the fact that the Palestinian population in the region has doubled in the last 20 years!
Launching a speaking tour in 2012 entitled “The Day I Stopped Hating Israel,” Hafeez joined “Christians United for Israel” in 2014. His disdain for the biases born of Identity, his commitment to the integrity of Mind as opposed to the intellectually null delusions born of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc, is a perfect example of the wisdom to which “conservatism” is committed. But of course just as all Black “conservatives” are deemed by Black “liberals” to be “uncle Toms,” so Hafeez is now seen by Muslims as a traitor to his “tribe.” While there are no doubt “progressives” who would dispute that their vision is subject to such superficial criteria, many nevertheless continue to argue that the contention that 2+2=4 is a merely the product of White, Western bias! It is an absurd argument based on the notion that Race preempts logic and it is absurd!