In Sudan right now four million refugees are fleeing their homes. An “undercount” (Times Magazine says) of 10,000 are already dead. There’s mass rape and the deliberate targeting of civilians (men, women and children) by death squads going house-to-house. Hunger and a health crisis are rife. This latest episode of the Sudanese civil war between Muslim paramilitary juntas has been ongoing for months in a cataclysm spanning years. Yet, here’s the official UN response from its handles on X (formerly known as Twitter) these past 24 hours:

@UN – It announced a “Fact finding mission” to Sudan. No call for a ceasefire.

@Refugees – This is UNHCR. They’re the UNRWA—a refugee agency— for the rest of the world. Nothing.

@UNICEF – Nothing.

@UNRWA – They’re an exclusively pro-Palestinian refugee agency, you see. Nothing.

@FranceskAlbs – This is the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese who only works for Palestine and recently graced Australian media accusing Israel of genocide. Nothing.

@DrTedros – He’s Director-General of the World Health Organization. He did repost a comment from the New York Times that included mention of “the toll of violence from Gaza to Haiti to Sudan to Israel to Tigray, where tens of thousands of women may have been raped by armed groups”. But he’s still only calling for a ceasefire—in Gaza.

@antonioguterres – He’s Secretary-General of the UN. His account actually posted something that read: “8 months of conflict in Sudan have led to a desperate humanitarian & human rights crisis. Without urgent food assistance, the risk of catastrophic levels of hunger is on the horizon for millions of people.” But no call for a ceasefire there. He did note the concept of “human rights” though. He had to, considering his incessant posts against Israel over Gaza.

Only the Archbishop of Khartoum, Ezekiel Kondo, quoting the Jewish prophet Isaiah, today has called for the “two warring parties … to consider putting their guns beyond use and silence them for peace as a matter of urgency”, for Christmas.

And what of Qatar’s Al Jazeera? It’s merely reporting the failure of those Islamic warring parties in Sudan to broker peace as a “disastrous outcome”. The main issue, they say, is that the Sudanese Rapid Support Forces (RSF) will not “vacate civilian homes in Khartoum”. But there’s no outcry from the UN over that war crime.

Time Magazine says that, right now, “Sudan has the world’s largest displaced population”. Where are the protests against the United Arab Emirates, alleged sponsors of the RSF? Where’s the global outcry against another Islamic terror group spreading destruction across the globe?

Ah, there’s no Student Justice “for Sudan” movement in the West’s universities; no Boycott Divestment Sanctions corporation propping up anti-Islamist education in the West’s high schools; no socialists, teachers, US Democrats or “Queers for Sudan” marching in the streets sporting Darfur clothing—rags aren’t as trendy as keffiyehs. (Hard to get a 3-second view on TikTok with that). Why?

There’s no money in it. No grift for the UN, nothing like what BDS makes from antisemitism. And the Extremist Muslim World is so feckless, there’s no money or power for it either if it can’t send “martyrs” to bring in the UN’s aid.

To be outraged, you see, you need a meme and in Sudan, like Syria, there are no Jews to blame.

On May 26 2023 Guardian ran a headline, “‘It’s very hard to talk about’: the civilian toll of fighting in Sudan”.

In September, before Israel became trendy again, UNICEF published an article: “Tens of thousands of Sudanese children on the brink of death before the year ends”. Their report said, “333,000 children will be born in Sudan between October and December. They and their mothers need skilled delivery care … Women and girls are continually terrorised during their escape. There are more and more reports of children recruited into armed groups. And Sudan is now one of the most dangerous places for aid workers”.

Zero outrage.

It’s eight months since Sudan’s last bout of fighting began—and that hasn’t been enough time for the world to unite and march against a truly civilian-targeted ethnic cleansing there? On November 10 2023 Al Jazeera ran the story, “‘Corpses on streets’: Sudan’s RSF kills 1,300 in Darfur, monitors say”.

The article reminded the world that in the Sudanese War, that ended in 2003 and has renewed again: “About 300,000 people died in combat as well as from famine and disease brought on by the conflict. Rights groups and the UN accused these government-backed militias—known to victims as the janjaweed, or ‘devils on horseback’ – of carrying out ethnic cleansing”.

But no call by the UN today for a ceasefire anywhere outside Gaza.

Black Lives only matter when there’s money to be made from someone who’s trendy to blame.

At some point the grifters in schools, businesses and local governments will remember that “Palestinian Lives” only matter just like that.

When Arabs kill Palestinians, when Muslims kill Muslims, who cares? But antisemitism is a great cash register—until its underlying hate comes for you.

Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust of World War Two but the vicissitudes of that war killed another 60 million people along with them.

© 2023 Adam Parker.

Picture credit: “The Sinews of Sudan’s Latest War”. In African Arguments, October 2023. Free use Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.