Oct. 7 Presents American Liberals With a Time for Choosing | RealClearPolitics
Hamas savage pogrom in Israel revealed the moral abyss at the core of America s left and the cowardice of traditional liberals who enable them.
The highly coordinated war crimes the murder, rape, and torture of civilians were clear to the eyes of the world on that dark day because the butchers gleefully posted videos of their inhumanity.
Oct. 7 appears to have been the deadliest single day for Jews since the Holocaust.
As has been widely reported, this barbarity gave no pause to many leftists, especially those at top schools, who almost immediately issued statements blaming Israel for the violence. Some grotesquely celebrated the carnage.
These statements were soon followed by messages from several university presidents among others who refused to confront and denounce this evil. Corporate leaders who rushed to denounce the 2017 clashes in Charlottesville and George Floyd s death while in police custody in 2020 largely remained silent.
Yes, there have been some signs of a pullback in recent days, but that is merely a cowardly response to the backlash against the shameful defense of monstrous acts. One doesn t need to reject the complexities of the Middle East or even support Israel s reprisals to acknowledge that the events of Oct. 7 were indefensible.
And yet, they were defended and diminished by many members of America s elite, including students who will likely be running our country one day. The same crowd that has insisted that words are weapons and silence is violence, who have used cancel culture to destroy those who say things they dislike, is now saying hey, genocide happens; it s complicated.
One hopes the rebarbative response to this savagery will spark a Bud Light Moment for liberals who have made a devil s bargain with the left, bowing to its illiberal intentions because of their shame regarding America s past and their fears of Donald Trump.
Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas, as they say.