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Spectator Editorial - Will America’s leaders be up to the task of tackling the disinformation campaigns and rampant antisemitism plaguing the country?
"If there could ever be a positive that comes out of the horrific terrorist attacks in Israel in October, it’s this — the
battle lines have never been clearer. That may seem obvious in the context of Israel versus Hamas, but for Americans, watching the
drawing of the
fault lines has been extremely clarifying.- In the hours that followed the atrocities, the people who reject any sort of nuance in politics wanted to “put into context” the murders of 1,400 Jews — including elderly Holocaust survivors, women and children. The Manhattan chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, of which Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez remains a member, tweeted support of Palestine and its intention of holding a rally in Times Square.
- Black Lives Matter Twitter accounts posted memes featuring silhouettes of paragliders like the ones Hamas used to invade Israel. Rally speakers laughed and cheered on the Hamas terrorists.
- One Cornell professor, speaking at a protest on campus, said of the attacks, “it was exhilarating. It was exhilarating, it was energizing!” and further told the crowd, “you would not be human” if you felt otherwise.
- Jewish students at Cooper Union in Manhattan were forced to hide in a library and escape through tunnels as a pro-Hamas mob banged on the doors when they heard there were Jews afraid to walk campus.
- Posters of the kidnapped children around New York and on college campuses have repeatedly been violently torn down by Hamas sympathizers.
- Chants of “from the river to the sea,” a call to wipe Israel off the map, are common at virtually every pro-Palestine rally.
- The flagrant antisemitism on display would make the most ardent neo-Nazi blush.
- On college campuses and cities across America, the events that have followed the October 7 attack have laid bare what the “social justice” movement really stands for. Leftists have shown us what’s under their masks, revealing their true selves and what’s meant by “decolonization.”
They won’t stop at Israel.
