The inconvenience of left-wing antisemitism

Published May 17, 2021 12:00am ET



Last week, in New York City, there was an antisemitic march. But apparently, this march was not newsworthy.

The fact that marchers attacked and bloodied a Jewish counterprotester received only limited coverage. These marchers chanted a slogan that called for the extermination of the Jewish state and compared Jews to Nazis and Hitler. Their chant was the pro-Hamas slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” As is the case with the Hamas charter, the slogan implicitly calls for the extermination of the Jewish state, and presumably all the Jews in it. Hamas, which has fired more than 3,000 rockets at Israel in the last week, is a U.S.-designated terrorist organization with the stated objective of eliminating by terror the Jewish state.

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