And it is beyond doubt that the conflict provoked by Hamas’s gruesome attack has, in turn, claimed the lives of many innocent Palestinian civilians. But if that is the demonstrators’ true motivation, where were the throngs of people mourning the hundreds of thousands of Shias (or, for that matter, 3,000 Palestinians) murdered by Bashar Assad in Syria? Where are the mass protests about the millions of Uighurs oppressed by the Chinese government in Xinjiang? Why did no one seem to care when, only last month, Azeri forces expelled 100,000 Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh?

The simple, sobering truth is that the international left has barely paid attention to any of those conflicts. Instead, it has reserved its rage for the actions of the only state in the world that happens to be Jewish.

[Let’s just say that a lot of masks have dropped the past three weeks — and this may not be ‘confusion’ at all. — Ed]