ISRAELI NOTES

 

Hamas horror quickly reveals the bigots in our midst

By 

Douglas Murray

Sometimes a flare goes up in the darkness and you can see where everyone is standing.

That has certainly been the case since the appalling massacres in Israel last Saturday.

The bodies of all the young festivalgoers, pensioners and beheaded babies hadn’t even been found before people began making excuses for their murder.

And even praised the mass slaughter.

On Sunday, just 24 hours after the atrocities, Hamas terrorists were still killing Jews in Israel.

And radical extremists were gathering in Times Square to celebrate their actions.

I went over to Times Square to see that “pro-Palestine” rally.

But it wasn’t “pro-Palestine.”

It was just pro-massacre.

One woman in a headscarf stood in front of the crowd proudly waving a homemade sign.

It read “Zionist nightmares” and then listed the date in 1973 when all of Israel’s neighbors tried to wipe it out, and then 10/07/23.

The date of last Saturday.

The date when Hamas terrorists machine-gunned young people and shot pensioners at bus stops.

“Long live the Intifada” this hideous woman’s sign concluded, with a Palestinian flag.

And wow, was she pleased with herself, as she cheered and punched her fist in the air.

Israel had not made one military strike in retaliation at this point.

Like the rest of the crowd, she was not there opposing Israeli retaliation.

She was there to celebrate.

“From the river to the sea,” many of the more formal banners said.

Which is a Palestinian battle cry that means “Destroy Israel” (because if a Palestinian state ran “from the river [Jordan] to the sea,” there would be no Israel).

Other banners said, “Resistance Is Justified.”

Others added, “By any means necessary.”

Really?

By any means?

Like beheading some 40 babies, in a single kibbutz alone?

The Times Square rally certainly seemed to think so.

While a small group of Jewish and pro-Israel counter-protesters gathered on the other side of the street, the Palestinian protesters taunted them.

They screamed at them and waved their murderous signs in their faces even more.

You have to take a moment to consider the implications of that.

Imagine if this had been done to any other group of people, other than Jews.

Remember back to 2015 when an evil young man named Dylann Roof walked into a church in South Carolina and started shooting black congregants?

It was one of the worst shootings in recent American history.

And condemned by everyone.

An unforgivable act.

But imagine if there was a group in the US so sick — so utterly depraved — that after that shooting, they got together outside other black churches.

And waved flags and signs praising the shooter in front of black Americans.

Such people would be condemned by everyone.

It wouldn’t be difficult.

It really wouldn’t.

So why do so many people seem to find it so hard when the victims are Jews?

Ask Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), who was silent on Tuesday when asked by a Fox Business reporter if she had anything to say about Hamas beheading babies and burning children alive.

That isn’t a difficult one.

Or at least it shouldn’t be.

Tlaib could have just said, “I am against these things.”

But she couldn’t.

It took clear pressure from her party to subsequently issue a statement saying she was anti-baby-burning in general.

Her fellow “Squad” member Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) performed a related trick.

She was one of those radical leftists and sectarians who decided to get straight into condemning Israel’s response, rather than the terrorism itself.

Perhaps Omar finds the atrocities of last weekend a bit much.

But she doesn’t want to give Israel an inch.

So she sits out the first part of the conflict and comes in just in time to condemn any Israeli counter-move.

“Gaza doesn’t have shelters,” she said, so “please pray for them.”

Perhaps somebody could tell Omar that Gaza certainly does have shelters.

But Hamas uses them to store their rockets and bombs in.

If it wanted to protect the citizens of Gaza, Hamas could have spent more time building bunkers for its citizens and less time digging tunnels to try to break into Israel and murder Jews.

Omar must know this.

Just as she must know what she is doing when — along with Tlaib and Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) — she used the massacre of Israelis to again call for cutting off US aid to Israel.

Everywhere, across America, other people have also given away precisely where they stand.

Think of the BLM group in Chiacgo that sent out a tweet praising the sick terrorists who flew into the Israeli music festival on hang-gliders.

Who could have imagined that anyone involved with BLM could be pro-violence?

It’s the same with all those radical professors and students who have been hiding in plain sight.

They are suddenly lit up for all to see.

Consider Yale University professor Zareena Grewal.

In the wake of the atrocities in Israel, she tweeted out, “Prayers for Palestinians. Israel is a murderous, genocidal settler state and Palestinians have every right to resist through armed struggle.”

Wow.

“Every right.”

Like burning whole families to death, intentionally?

That’s quite a right for anyone to have.

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan has spent the last week trying to talk about Israeli “war crimes” but hasn’t told his followers about his own radical views.

Such as his view — expressed in a mosque sermon many years ago — that all non-Muslims are like animals.

Within hours of the atrocities, the American left was full of similar grossness.

People like Ryna Workman, president of NYU’s student bar association.

Workman claims to be “non-binary.”

She also wrote this week that the terrorists of Hamas have “my unwavering and absolute solidarity.”

I, for one, doubt that the terrorists of Hamas would have much use for Workman’s “solidarity.”

Were she ever to visit Gaza, she would probably not be welcomed.

Hamas kills Palestinians it suspects of being gay.

And it spent the past weekend raping women beside the bodies of their dead friends.

So this dim “non-binary” woman might find her solidarity is tested to the limits.

But as I say, a flare has gone up in the night sky.

And it reminds us that we have many people in this country who rejoice in the deepest darkness.