{"id":13425,"date":"2021-05-20T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13425"},"modified":"2021-05-20T13:44:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T20:44:46","slug":"why-does-the-left-hate-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/why-does-the-left-hate-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Does the Left Hate Israel?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As over 3,000 rockets are fired into Israel by Hamas, the establishment of the Democratic Party seems paralyzed over how to respond to the latest Middle East war. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not just that they fear that the squad, Black Lives Matter, the shock troops of Antifa, and the woke institutions such as professional sports, academia, and the media are now unapologetically anti-Israel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They are in terror also that anti-Israelism is becoming synonymous with rank anti-Semitism. And soon the Democratic Party will end up disdained as much as was the British Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new core of the Democrats, as emblemized by Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), has in the past questioned the patriotism of American Jews who support Israel, and often has had to apologize for puerile anti-Semitic rants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness As over 3,000 rockets are fired into Israel by Hamas, the establishment of the Democratic Party seems paralyzed over how to respond to the latest Middle East war.  It is not just that they fear that the squad, Black Lives Matter, the shock troops of Antifa, and the woke […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-3ux","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9633,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/9633-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":13425,"position":0},"title":"From an Angry Reader: The\u2026","author":"Megan Ring","date":"November 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"From an Angry Reader: The new kind of Republican party is part 1930\u2019s Nazi and 1950\u2019s Dixiecrat. 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