Elephant In Room’s Metaphor For Awkward Unspoken Truth Is ‘Muslim Antisemitism’

The researchers immediately grasped that the creatures were referencing the common practice among Western journalists, politicians, and “experts” to ignore fourteen centuries of Jew-hate embedded in Islamic culture.

Washington, March 14 – Zoologists have determined that pachyderms have an analogous concept to a common human phrase referring to an obvious but uncomfortable issue that goes unmentioned, in their case noting the human tendency to avoid bringing up centuries of Islamic hate for Jews because invoking such a valent topic it makes things politically inconvenient, a new study indicates.

Scientists writing in the journal The Double Standard described their discovery in next month’s issue. “Humans are not the only species with political considerations,” explained lead author Dr. Pilba Heder, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Michigan, in an interview. “We’ve known that about numerous social animals, especially dogs, for quite some time. Elephants, as herd animals some of the time, certainly exhibit social behaviors, a phenomenon well-documented in the literature. The new element in our study involves the nuances of that communication – or, more accurately, lack of communication, and subsequent communication about that lack of communication. Specifically, when elephants, in a room or otherwise, need to talk about the fact that no one is talking about something unpleasant or taboo, they call it ‘the Muslim antisemitism in the room.’ This fascinating phenomenon requires much further study.”

The researchers immediately grasped that the creatures were referencing the common practice among Western journalists, politicians, and “experts” to ignore fourteen centuries of Jew-hate embedded in Islamic culture, from cries of “Khaybar, Khaybar ya Yahud” to the euphemistic “protected” dhimmi status of Jews under Muslim rule, to prohibitions on Jews riding horses, building synagogues taller than mosques, owning weapons, resisting Islamic supremacy in any way, or pursuing, let alone enjoying, equal citizenship.

“The default mode is to examine and discuss Israeli policies or behavior in analyzing Middle East dynamics,” the article notes. “Seldom, if ever, does a mainstream media personality or outlet in the US, Europe, Oceania, or Canada place opposition to Israel, and terrorist violence associated with that opposition, in the context of the pervasive Muslim antisemitism that characterized that society’s relationship to Jews. By social convention, it appears, everyone seeks to pretend that Muslim opposition to Jewish sovereignty, and the way that sovereignty is exercised, in the ancestral Jewish homeland, emerges solely as a reaction to Jewish or Israeli behaviors in the last century. It would seem that the elephants’ observation of this phenomenon among humans, and the species’ adoption of it as an encapsulation of a broader sociolinguistic practice, evinces not just an astute language capacity among elephants, but a far more comprehensible one than the analogous term among humans.”

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