The West’s Suicide Wish

Before the dead had been buried, before a single hostage had been returned, before Israel had launched its counteroffensive, protests sprang across the West in praise of the “Palestinian resistance,” or, as it’s also known, Hamas.

Anti-Israel demonstrators across Europe and the Western world weren’t merely protesting the endangerment of Palestinian lives in Gaza but the very existence of Israel “from the river to the sea.” Posters of Israeli hostages have been torn down or defaced, the word “colonizer” scrawled across pictures of abducted children. Cries of “One solution, intifada, revolution” and “Death to the Jews” have been shouted on public streets and on university campuses. In Britain, Muslim leaders have used Hamas’s attacks as an opportunity to deliver sermons on Islamic tales about killing Jews and the duty “to fulfill the command of jihad.”

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Madeleine Kearns

Madeleine Kearns is a former staff writer at National Review.

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Before the dead had been buried, before a single hostage had been returned, before Israel had launched its counteroffensive, protests sprang across the West in praise of the “Palestinian resistance,” or, as it’s also known, Hamas.

Anti-Israel demonstrators across Europe and the Western world weren’t merely protesting the endangerment of Palestinian lives in Gaza but the very existence of Israel “from the river to the sea.” Posters of Israeli hostages have been torn down or defaced, the word “colonizer” scrawled across pictures of abducted children. Cries of “One solution, intifada, revolution” and “Death to the Jews” have been shouted on public streets and on university campuses. In Britain, Muslim leaders have used Hamas’s attacks as an opportunity to deliver sermons on Islamic tales about killing Jews and the duty “to fulfill the command of jihad.”