On the one-year anniversary of the worst slaughter of Jews for the reason that Holocaust, the “pro-Palestinian” motion selected to rejoice, with a whole bunch of “protesters” hitting Wall Avenue and hundreds gathering in Washington Sq. Park to march uptown.
Their fellow-travelers additionally fashioned by the a whole bunch at campuses reminiscent of Columbia and NYU, chanting “From the river to the ocean / Palestine will likely be free” — a name for Israel’s elimination, even when most of them refuse to understand or admit it.
Different requires homicide included chants like, “There is just one resolution, intifada revolution” and “Lengthy stay the intifada.”
They vandalized a Metropolis Faculty constructing, bloodied at the least one counter-protester and set a hearth in Washington Sq. Park.
Many, most likely most, wore masks.
Half of the purpose was plainly to drown out the assorted pro-Israel rallies of the day, most of them somber memorials for these misplaced on Oct. 7: The protesters can’t even let Jews and their supporters grieve peacefully.
One other, to intimidate — in a (cowardly: keep in mind the masks) present of the fury to be aimed toward those that help Israel in opposition to its genocidal enemies.
And naturally many — the radicalized faculty youngsters, the town’s massive lefty professional-protest class — primarily needed to behave out and revel of their imagined righteousness, safe within the consolation that they’ll face zero penalties for any property harm, bloodshed or different disruptions (good luck to anybody who wants an ambulance on all of the shut-down streets).
Put that lack of penalties on Gov. Hochul, who’s executed nothing this previous yr to rally the forces of civilization in opposition to these wannabe-barbarians: She claims to be a reasonable, however apparently not one who’s prepared to raise a finger to assist the middle maintain.
We’ll stand with Liel Leibovitz right here: These thugs “cheering for the monsters who nonetheless maintain 4 Americans in captivity” are unintentionally doing us all a favor by proving “that the so-called pro-Palestine crowd isn’t actually all that excited by Palestine.”
Their mission is basically anti-American in addition to antisemitic.
And if the governor and different main Democrats can’t draw the plain classes, the remainder of us nonetheless will.
