Oct. 7 Presents American Liberals With a Time for Choosing

Hamas’ savage pogrom in Israel revealed the moral abyss at the core of America’s left and the cowardice of traditional liberals who enable them.

The highly coordinated war crimes – the murder, rape, and torture of civilians – were clear to the eyes of the world on that dark day because the butchers gleefully posted videos of their inhumanity.

Oct. 7 appears to have been the deadliest single day for Jews since the Holocaust.

As has been widely reported, this barbarity gave no pause to many leftists, especially those at top schools, who almost immediately issued statements blaming Israel for the violence. Some grotesquely celebrated the carnage.

These statements were soon followed by messages from several university presidents among others who refused to confront and denounce this evil. Corporate leaders who rushed to denounce the 2017 clashes in Charlottesville and George Floyd’s death while in police custody in 2020 largely remained silent.

One of its galvanizing assumptions divides the world into two groups: the oppressors and the oppressed. Expressions of this include the recent rise of concepts such as white privilege, systemic racism, and queer theory. This racialized ideology holds that the oppressed are entitled to fight their alleged oppressors by any means necessary.

We see this, for example, in our daily news coverage where the alleged crimes of the “oppressors” are cast as grave threats to the Republic, and those committed by the “oppressed” are acts of rebellion seeking justice or are excused as proof of the degradations imposed by the ruling class.

Such thinking is unspeakably dangerous. As it excuses the behavior of some, it denies the humanity of others. This was the dynamic at work on Oct. 7. Like the Hamas terrorists they celebrated, many on the American left did not see the slaughtered Israelis as human beings but as obstacles to their aims. It is the same ideology that informed the Soviet Union, the Communist Chinese, and the perpetrators of the genocide in Rwanda.

At a time when Americans blithely call each other Nazis, Hamas’ action was a continuation of Hitler’s final solution. And many of our fellow citizens applauded it.

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