On today’s Editors podcast, Jim Geraghty tries to make sense of the wildly divergent responses in the West to the massacre of Jews in Israel last week.
“There is one curious dynamic, and I’m curious about whether it’s my perception of what I see out there on social media or whether this is actually the case,” he said. “Since the Hamas massacre, we saw all kinds of really horrific statements . . . folks with a considerable amount of social stature in our society who are coming out and saying, ‘Ah, let’s adopt the paraglider as a symbol.’ ‘Oh, they killed a bunch of hipsters in the desert.’ . . . All this kind of stuff that was either effectively or directly pro-Hamas.”
But why are the antisemites of the Left being so vocal, but not the antisemites of the Right? Jim speculates it’s because they hate all of the groups involved.
By contrast, Jim says, the Left “looks at Hamas [as] at best misguided, or you know, really misguided. ‘They mean well, they’re fighting for a righteous cause,’ blah, blah, blah and all that nonsense. . . . The good news is there will always be people who love the Jewish people. The bad news is there will always be people who hate the Jewish people, and something like this brings them out of the friggin’ woodwork.”
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