COMMENTARY: There are convenient or useful minorities — and then there are those that many in the world seem to wish away, such as the Afrikaners.
Anyone with eyes to see knows that there is injustice in the world. Regardless of the constant drumbeat over Gaza these last three years, the largest and worst — and the most ignored — humanitarian crisis in the world today was and remains Sudan.
And despite the ink the Palestinian cause gets, in English and other languages, few know that the largest group of people in the Middle East that seeks its long-denied state and self-determination are the 30 million Kurds, a people whose homelands are carved up between Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria.
There are convenient or useful minorities, and then there are those that many in the world seem to wish away. The passions and interests of the West over such things wax and wane. Once, “Free Tibet” was a thing. Twenty years ago — I saw it with my own eyes — hundreds of thousands rallied on the Mall in Washington, D.C., to “save Darfur.” Today Darfur is still “unsaved,” and nobody cares.
These thoughts came into sharp relief for
