“Oct 7 2023”

… As Karin McQuillan explained in “Leftist Jew Hatred Has Come to America,” “the Left began with blacklisting and boycotting conservatives. Now American Jews are in the crosshairs, no matter how liberal their politics.”

But they won’t jump off the bandwagon, she wrote, because that would mean “losing your friends, being shunned at synagogue, and stunting your career[.] … [C]hanging party affiliation is such a tall cliff, it feels suicidal, that is the loss of their entire identity.”

McQuillan quotes the estimable Daniel Greenfield: “There is no future for Jews on the left except as collaborators in anti-Semitism.”

Hello B’nai Brith …

The myth that Israel’s tactics, not its existence, is at issue died with the murdered Jewish families on October 7, 2023 and the Hezbollah terrorists taken out by pagers on September 17, 2024.

No sooner did the encrypted communications devices handed out to members of the Islamic Jihadist group begin exploding than human rights experts and the UN began condemning the single greatest targeted attack on a terror group as a violation of international law. Those same organizations and activists had nothing to say about the Hezbollah rocket attacks on Israeli towns and villages that turned tens of thousands of Jews into refugees in their own country.

No confirmation he’s dead.

IDF security experts assess that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was successfully eliminated in the strike on the Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut

A victory for all of Israel and the USA pic.twitter.com/shdSO60dFl

— Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) September 27, 2024

This is how Israel ended Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Israel remains the FAFO world champions. pic.twitter.com/O4nUR3SI9I

— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia) September 27, 2024

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) was already pretty explicit in its support for killing Jews after Oct 7. A DSA founder, Maurice Isserman, resigned after that “to protest the DSA leadership’s politically and morally bankrupt response to the horrific Hamas October 7 anti-Jewish pogrom.”

And it got worse from there.

Some in the international media are misrepresenting the recent round of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed terrorist organization, Hezbollah, as a war between Israel and Lebanon. This, however, is not a war between Israel and the Lebanese people. Rather, it is a war between Israel and a heavily armed terrorist group that has created a state within a state in Lebanon and is acting on orders from the mullahs in Tehran to advance their goal of destroying the “Zionist entity.” This war was initiated 11 months ago by Hezbollah in support of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, another Iran-backed proxy based in the Gaza Strip.

On ABC’s Sunday program, “This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby acknowledged sheepishly that Hamas is holding up a deal with Israel that would see the end of the war in Gaza and the release of at least some of the hostages.

The fact that something so obvious requires repeating is beyond outrageous. Nevertheless, it’s made necessary by the choir of voices blaming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu for the absence of an arrangement with Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar and his army of mass murderers.

The United Nations General Assembly broke into applause on Tuesday morning during Secretary-General António Guterres’ opening address when he said the world could not afford Lebanon to become another Gaza.

“Let’s be clear, nothing can justify the abhorrent acts of terror committed by Hamas on October 7 or the taking of hostages, both of which I have repeatedly condemned, and nothing can justify the collective punishment of the Palestinian people,” he said.

Netanyahu takes country to brink of all-out war with Hezbollah as IDF claims to have hit 1,300 targets across southern Lebanon

Benjamin Netanyahu warned Lebanese civilians “to get out of harm’s way” on Monday after Israel embarked on a full-scale air offensive against Hezbollah.

As his forces launched a devastating wave of attacks across Lebanon, the Israeli prime minister urged residents living in Hezbollah strongholds to flee their homes rather than allow the Iran-backed movement to use them as “human shields”.

“Israel’s war is not with you,” he said in a televised message. “It is with Hezbollah.”

Message for the people of Lebanon: pic.twitter.com/gNVNLUlvjm

— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) September 23, 2024

The concept of home resonates deeply in all those searching for connection, peace, love, permanence and tranquility. This is particularly so for Jews, who have been scattered among alien cultures for countless generations. Their common faith and the ideal of a home — with specific focus on Israel — has enabled them to maintain their sense of identity and culture despite tremendous odds, barely surviving in hostile lands.