Rallies to support the Hamas attack have sprung up across the country and were quickly the coolest place to be if you want universal healthcare and also the genocide of Jews. As one speaker shouted to a cheering crowd in New York at an event promoted by the DSA: “As you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters. But I’m sure they’re doing very fine despite what the New York Post says.”

Right.

As my lesbian hero, Berkeley professor Judith Butler, famously put it: “Understanding Hamas, Hezbollah as social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left, is extremely important.” Yes, okay, they would kill me and Judy, parade our bodies through the streets, but that’s not the point. We are united.

[“Playboy has a stronger moral compass than the whole Ivy League,” Bowles writes, but it’s not just the Ivies, and it’s not just Academia. Genocide-cheering has infected the entire American Left, or at least terrorism apologias. As Bowles points out in her full essay, they have been doing this for years, only liberals and centrists didn’t take it seriously. No one has that excuse after this week. The Left wants the Jews dead, and after that, they’ll come for the rest. — Ed]