This is more than a slogan of solidarity with the people of Gaza. It is a rallying cry for anti-Semitic hatred
They’re burning Jews again. This time not in the killing factories of Belzec or Chełmno but in the shopping district of Boulder, Colorado, and not in the name of Aryan supremacy but that of the most progressive cause of all: Palestine.
That is what the alleged attacker reportedly shouted after firebombing a vigil for Israeli hostages at Pearl Street Mall: “Free Palestine”. Eight people have been injured, including an 88-year-old, and a suspect taken into custody.
It comes almost two weeks after the fatal shooting in Washington DC of Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. The accused in that incident is also said to have shouted “Free Palestine” as he murdered the young couple.
It is more than a slogan of solidarity with the people in Gaza or a demand for another Arab state alongside Israel. “Free Palestine” has become a rallying cry for violent, homicidal anti-Zionism across Western cities, an incitement to and justification for aggression and attacks on Jews, their property and their religious and cultural symbols.
Civil authorities in the United States and Europe will have to come to terms with the grim new reality that a segment of their citizenries have been recruited, via a mixture of foreign-funded anti-Israel propaganda and highly ideological domestic reporting, to a violent, homicidal cause whose locus is no longer to be found only in the Middle East but in American and European cities.
That cause has long been the meeting place for righteous victimhood and murderous terrorism, the ambit under which Palestinian nationalists and Islamist fanatics wage war on the Jews and their tiny, embattled state.
Now that war is being waged on Western soil, where the tactics of Hamas and its ilk are replicated by people convinced they are taking a noble stand for an oppressed people. These are not isolated incidents, they are part of a pattern. The intifada has been globalised, anti-Semitism weaponised, and Western citizens radicalised.
What happened in Boulder will happen again, what happened in Washington will happen again, and when it does bystanders will report hearing cries of “Free Palestine”, for that is what you now shout if you want to maim and murder but are too progressive to yell ‘Kill the Jews’.
This is the inevitable consequence of the moral hollowing out of Western elites by post-modern, progressive doctrines. Universities inculcate the young in radical anti-Zionism, the mainstream media demonises Israel as a barbaric coloniser, and political leaders pander to sectional voting blocs within their communities rather than standing with a sister democracy against those who would incite and venerate the murder of Jews in the language of “freedom”.
This is more than a slogan of solidarity with the people of Gaza. It is a rallying cry for anti-Semitic hatred
They’re burning Jews again. This time not in the killing factories of Belzec or Chełmno but in the shopping district of Boulder, Colorado, and not in the name of Aryan supremacy but that of the most progressive cause of all: Palestine.
That is what the alleged attacker reportedly shouted after firebombing a vigil for Israeli hostages at Pearl Street Mall: “Free Palestine”. Eight people have been injured, including an 88-year-old, and a suspect taken into custody.
It comes almost two weeks after the fatal shooting in Washington DC of Israeli embassy staffers Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim. The accused in that incident is also said to have shouted “Free Palestine” as he murdered the young couple.
It is more than a slogan of solidarity with the people in Gaza or a demand for another Arab state alongside Israel. “Free Palestine” has become a rallying cry for violent, homicidal anti-Zionism across Western cities, an incitement to and justification for aggression and attacks on Jews, their property and their religious and cultural symbols.
Civil authorities in the United States and Europe will have to come to terms with the grim new reality that a segment of their citizenries have been recruited, via a mixture of foreign-funded anti-Israel propaganda and highly ideological domestic reporting, to a violent, homicidal cause whose locus is no longer to be found only in the Middle East but in American and European cities.
That cause has long been the meeting place for righteous victimhood and murderous terrorism, the ambit under which Palestinian nationalists and Islamist fanatics wage war on the Jews and their tiny, embattled state.
Now that war is being waged on Western soil, where the tactics of Hamas and its ilk are replicated by people convinced they are taking a noble stand for an oppressed people. These are not isolated incidents, they are part of a pattern. The intifada has been globalised, anti-Semitism weaponised, and Western citizens radicalised.
What happened in Boulder will happen again, what happened in Washington will happen again, and when it does bystanders will report hearing cries of “Free Palestine”, for that is what you now shout if you want to maim and murder but are too progressive to yell ‘Kill the Jews’.
This is the inevitable consequence of the moral hollowing out of Western elites by post-modern, progressive doctrines. Universities inculcate the young in radical anti-Zionism, the mainstream media demonises Israel as a barbaric coloniser, and political leaders pander to sectional voting blocs within their communities rather than standing with a sister democracy against those who would incite and venerate the murder of Jews in the language of “freedom”.