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Scenes From DC: 'Are You a Jew? You People Are the Devil!'

Guy Benson
Guy Benson  |  October 26, 2023 10:15 AM

Anti-Semitism is spiking across the country and around the world.  The most virulent form of this ancient hatred reared its ugly head in the form of Hamas terrorists murdering 1,400 Jews a few weeks ago, doing so by invading the Jewish state they seek to annihilate and slaughtering as many civilians as possible.  This prompted a huge surge in hate crimes, which already dramatically and disproportionately impacted Jews in the United States before the recent explosion in anti-Jewish sentiment.  Language warning -- though it's hard to blame anyone for being angry over the White House Press Secretary dismissing the threat of anti-Semitism and pivoting away to a warning against Islamophobia:

Jean-Pierre had to clean up her mess the next day.  It's true that among religion-based hate crimes, attacks on Jews far outpaced any other group in 2022, which experienced a considerable uptick in such anti-Semitic incidents over the previous year.  Hate crimes against Jews have skyrocketed in major Western cities, as anti-Semites have been inspired and emboldened by the Hamas massacre.  At George Washington University in DC -- which recently changed its school mascot because "Colonials" was considered offensive, and whose president initially sided with Chinese Communist Party propagandists over free speech in a disturbing incident last year -- students projected pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic graphics onto a building on campus last night:

Literally glorifying Jew-murdering martyrs, in addition to the 'river to the sea' eliminationist slogan. Aggressive anti-Semitism. Campus police eventually confronted those responsible -- people hiding behind masks who argued they were the ones being treated unfairly.  The school's chapter of the rabidly-bigoted 'Students for Justice in Palestine' hate organization previously announced its "full support" for the Hamas massacre of Jews, framing it as part of the "right to resist...by any means necessary," and also rejecting "the distinction between ‘civilian’ and ‘militant.’”  I keep coming back to these thoughts:

It's not unfair or "Islamophobic" to conflate 'pro-Palestine' with pro-Hamas if massive swaths of those associated with the former cause don't even really attempt to distance themselves from the latter reality.  In many cases, they're not even merely Hamas sympathetic; they're proud of Hamas.  No wonder ripping down posters of the innocent hostages has become a popular, sick pastime among the pro-Hamas crowd.  Elsewhere in the nation's capital, a minor traffic dispute turned ugly very quickly.  Casual, open, unapologetic anti-semitism:

Her child heard all of that.  Meanwhile, please take note of fake news and real news sources continuing to parrot Hamas propaganda, even after the giant, dangerous lie about Israel bombing a hospital in Gaza:

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Yet another reminder that terrorist propaganda is garbage misinformation that should be disregarded, not reported.  A relevant flashback to 2002:

Palestinians lie about Israel-attributed death tolls as if it's breathing.  It's what they do.  Continuing to believe them is a choice.  I'll leave you with this story out of the UK.  The newscast chose this woman to be the face of Islamophobia victimhood in London.  Oops: