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Political Maelstrom Descends on D.C.
Progressives are bitterly split over the Israel/Hamas war, on-campus anti-Semitism has reached a tumultuous pitch, and Donald Trump is beating Joe Biden in the polls. What is happening?
“Poll Finds Holocaust Denial Has Infected the Democrats, Cities, and Youth,” lamented the New York Sun’s Dean Karayanis on Saturday.
It was the latest blow in a month filled with outrages perpetrated by Hamas-sympathetic progressives on the left. From campus quads to city streets, anti-Semitism has reached such a fevered pitch, that three top university heads were called to testify on the subject by concerned legislators on Capitol Hill last week.
After all three failed to categorically state that calling for the genocide of Jewish people was against university policies, moderate Democrats set up an uproar. One president has since resigned from her post.
For their part, the general mystification and malaise of America’s elite Opinionati from corporate CEOs to Ivy League university presidents is understandable. After all, progressive activists went from “Black Lives Matter” to “Globalize the Intifada” in under three years.
“Black Lives Matter” as a rallying cry was unifying; the organization bearing the same name wound up being quite a bit less so in the fullness of time. BLM raised a tremendous…