The Anti-Israel Left

By Madeleine Kando

On October 7 2023, the terrorist group Hamas butchered 260 young music lovers at the Supernova Music Festival Negev Desert. They left 1,200 Israelis dead and 2,800 more wounded. Clearly they had ‘kill as many as you can’ on their mind.

The sheer brutality of it all left me breathless. The next day, there were pro-Palestinian and left wing groups celebrating that atrocity. In Manhattan, in London, at Harvard University and other campuses, the chant was: “the Israeli regime is entirely responsible for the violence’.

I spoke to some neighbors, trying to make sense of what just happened, the sheer brutality of the attack. What I heard was ‘It’s terrible, yes, but what about the poor Palestinians?’

It almost seemed like a brainwashed response. I am a liberal and so is most of my neighborhood, but can liberals not call a spade a spade? Can they not see beyond their binary worldview of the oppressors versus the oppressed? I am all for the underdog myself, but mass murder should not be condoned by blaming Israel for imposing an “apartheid” regime on Palestinians. That response requires a much more detailed knowledge of the long lasting Palestinian/Israeli conflict, than my liberal neighbors have.

Obviously, Hamas does not want peace. It wants to destroy Israel, and always has. No matter what the cost. Why would Hamas tell the Gaza population to stay in their homes, while Israel clearly warned them of an imminent attack?

What upsets me most is how some of us, in the West, are no longer able to recognize evil when it raises its ugly head. In our zeal to be politically correct, to defend the weak, we put the blame at the feet of the Jews. Being an Israeli is tantamount to being an evil, oppressive person. If some of them get butchered, so be it. That is the price they have to pay just for existing. leave comment here