The pro-Gaza brigade whose suffering you never heard of — and why

When the Israeli navy detained Greta Thunberg and other pro-Hamas radicals who were trying to “break the siege on Gaza,” the global sob-sister class went crazy on cue, crying about international piracy and Israeli mistreatment of the fake aid workers, including such torture as sending them home in coach.

Which makes the fate of other members of the same group so telling: The Global Sumud Flotilla, traveling overland from Tunisia, found themselves seized by Libyan forces and held incommunicado for weeks, and the world’s moral police said . . . nothing.

Crickets.

No marches or protests.

No front-page coverage alleging torture and beatings.

No lawyers rushing to demand access to the detained “humanitarians.”

It’s the clearest example of “No Jews, no news” we’ve seen since Hamas terrorists invaded Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, massacring 1,200 innocents and taking 250 hostage.

According to Sumud, 10 members of its “Land Convoy,” including several Europeans, Argentinians and one American, were detained at a checkpoint in eastern Libya on May 24, “forced into unmarked white vans and disappeared to an unknown location.”

After a week in isolation, the group was hauled before a prosecutor in Benghazi, denied counsel and ordered held another 10 days.

The American in the group, Jenelle Jones, filmed an “SOS” video soon released on Instagram: “If you are watching this video,” she says, holding her US passport in front of her, “it means I have been detained or abducted.”

Sumud says its people are “being held in an isolated, non-civilian prison complex operated by the Ministry of Interior, known locally as a ‘black site.’” They have no access to the outside world or to medical treatment; some are reportedly refusing food and water.

Aside from local coverage in Jones’ hometown of Knoxville, Tenn., and a scattering of news on leftist websites, it’s been a press blackout.

Meanwhile, Reuters reports that French prosecutors are looking into Israel’s “suspected torture and war crimes” of French nationals during the two or three days they were detained while being processed for deportation.

What a naked demonstration of the double standard the “international community” employs when it comes to Israel and its neighbors.

If Libya commits horrible human rights abuses, or half a million Sudanese civilians are killed . . . eh, that’s par for the course, isn’t it?

No need for protests, boycotts or hatred directed against Libyan or Sudanese citizens living abroad.

The moral fervor’s not really about anything Israel does, but purely about what Israel is: the Jewish state.