On Friday’s episode of The Editors podcast, National Review writer Maddy Kearns noted the twisted standards applied to the anti-Israel protests on campuses.
“I think,” she said, “ there will be a lot of well-meaning, good-faith liberals having a bit of a come-to-Jesus moment right now with . . . the Chicago chapter of Black Lives Matter posting a picture of Hamas paraglider with a Palestinian flag saying ‘I stand with Palestine.’ I mean, that is just pretty explicit support for terrorist attacks.
“We’ve seen this elsewhere as well,” she added. “At the University of Madison-Wisconsin, students were chanting, ‘Glory to the martyrs.’ Our colleague, Zach Kessel, has collected a list of a dozen or so student groups across American campuses praising Hamas’s terror attacks.”
She noted that she’s been shocked by it. “It’s just so explicit,” she said. “And these are oftentimes the same people who wield the charge ‘Nazi’ whenever it’s convenient. You know, we’ve been told that transphobes are equivalent to Nazis. We’ve been told that pretty mainstream conservative or Republican views are equivalent to Nazis. It’s certainly been used a lot in the Trump era.”
“And yet,” she continued, “When it comes to something that actually is quite fitting in comparison, namely the slaughter of Jews because they are Jews, you have all this doubling down on moral equivalency, excuse-making.”
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