As the anniversary of Hamas’s butchery of nearly 1,200 Israelis last Oct. 7 nears, it’s a good time to ponder why progressive Democrats such as Vice President Kamala Harris have found it difficult to condemn unequivocally the 21st century’s first Jewish pogrom.
Over the past year, we’ve seen Democrat after Democrat denounce Israel’s legitimate actions of self-defense against Hamas in the same, and sometimes stronger, terms than their disapproval of Hamas. The legacy media, Ivy League, and student protesters have echoed this false equivalence between victim and aggressor. How has it come to pass that an American ally, attacked by genocidal foes who commit war crimes en masse against Israeli civilians, is treated by progressive elites as equally at fault as its attackers for the ensuing carnage?
