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n an opinion piece published by The New Arab on July 26, 2016, Palestinian-American professor, Steven Salaita, argued that in the presidential race between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican nominee Donald Trump, we can only consider the former a “lesser evil” if we believe Palestinians are “lesser human beings.” As Salaita claimed, this is because “Clinton supports the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.” In other words, those who recklessly endorse the logic of “lesser evilism” often neglect its victims—in this case, the Palestinians.
Almost immediately after Salaita’s article was published, I noticed many leftists sharing it widely on social media, and praising him for highlighting the hypocrisy of those who accept the platitude of “lesser evilism” as applied to Clinton. Astonishingly, they were, in many cases, the very same individuals who have applied that botched logic to Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, claiming he is a necessary evil in the fight against ISIS and other “Islamic extremists.”
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