Monday was Memorial Day. On this sacred day of national memory, Americans honour their war dead with parades, barbecues and, if you’re a Princeton student who supports Hamas, blocking the street to stop the parade. Most of the students do this out of a perverted humanitarianism — which is to say, ignorance and self-love.
Some do it knowingly. For the Islamists, it is part of their war against the Jews, wherever they are. Their partners in the old-fashioned left also do it strategically, but without knowing where that partnership and its tactics will lead them.
Since October 7 even liberal Jews can peer into the future and see where all this is pushing them: out of the American mainstream in which they have swum so pleasantly, out of the elite universities that are gateway to the good life and out of the family of nations. All this has happened under the aegis of the Democratic Party. This is not an opinion.
It is a historical fact. And there’s more to come. Over Memorial Day weekend, Rashida Tlaib, the Democratic congresswoman from Michigan, addressed the People’s Congress for Palestine in Detroit.
The fingerprints of the People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine were all over the congress. The keynote speaker was Sana’ Daqqah, the widow of a People’s Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist who abducted, tortured and murdered an Israeli soldier. The PFLP’s Wisam Rafeedie spoke too.
You can imagine the rest: celebrating terrorists, calling for “a.