The month of October has been hard to reconcile in terms of current events. It is a time of great angst around the world and here at home. What has been especially troubling to me and difficult to come to terms with are the open displays of anti-Semitism, not just internally, but here in the United States as well. While hatred of Jews knows no particular partisan ideology, the aftermath of the Hamas attack on Israel and the response of Israel has been most prevalent on the left. As I wrote about last week, most Congressional Democrats have expressed their support of Israel, but this week, 15 House Democrats (and one consistently isolationist Republican) either voted No or President on a bipartisan resolution to express support for Israel after the worst attack in its history and the greatest single tragedy for the Jewish people since the Holocaust. It is also five years this weekend since the horrific Tree of Life mass murder at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Those murders were done by an American who had become poisoned by right-wing conspiracy theories and lies. It was far easier for people on the left to denounce him than what we are seeing these days on college campuses and in public opinion surveys of young people, who somehow feel that a genocide conducted by Hamas is somewhat justifiable against Israel….
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