Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too? That is what Hamas has accomplished.  The day after a genocidal attack on Israeli civilians, they launched a propaganda campaign describing themselves as victims of Israeli genocide, and the whole world is rushing to embrace them, which both Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and JNS Editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin regard as a reward for terrorism. Canada, Australia, UK, France, Norway, Spain, Portugal, and other European nations are joining Latin America, Asia, and Africa in recognizing a nonexistent Palestinian state that controls no territory, is ruled by terrorist entities, and prefers living off Western largesse to doing the hard work of nation building, as evidenced by the immediate destruction of the greenhouses the Israelis left for them when they totally evacuated Gaza in 2005. (So what occupation are Israel’s detractors referring to?)  Hamas now refers to a Palestinian state as “the fruits of October 7.”

Why has such an atrocity produced such a success? Tom Lehrer’s satirical song “National Brotherhood Week” says it all:

“Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,

And the Catholics hate the Protestants,

And the Moslems hate the Hindus,

And everyone hates the Jews.”

To illustrate how much the world hates Jews, consider the following excerpt from Uri Kaufman’s book American Intifada about just what they are celebrating:

“Across southern Israel, Hamas terrorists carried out the largest massacre of Jews in a single day since the Holocaust. An estimated 1,163 people were killed, thousands were wounded, and 251 were taken hostage. At least 347 of the dead were young people murdered at a nearby music festival. The mass killings stood out not just in their scale but in their brutality. Palestinians decapitated an Israeli soldier, brought his head to Gaza, and tried to sell it.

Some bodies were so charred that they could only be identified as human with a CT scan. Others were found with ash in their lungs, indicating that the victims had been burned alive. One black mass was found to contain two human spines that had fused together, suggesting that the victims were hugging when fuel was poured on them and they were set on fire. An Israeli pathologist later said that ‘in normal times, murder is carried out very quickly, with a shooting or a stabbing – these were slow, cruel killings, burning people alive, shooting them in a row and then driving cars over them.’

“Even the Nazis had the good sense to cover up their crimes. The Hamas terrorists enthusiastically posted their atrocities on social media. One was taped calling his parents and bragging that he had just killed ten Jews. His proud parents were recorded praising him. Khalil Shitaki, the most reliable Palestinian pollster, found almost universal support for the attacks among the Palestinian public, which surprised no one. Palestinian and other Arab leaders had long dehumanized Jews, referring to them as “apes and pigs.”  Senior Hamas official Chazi Hamad hailed the slaughter on Lebanese television, vowing that the group would continue to launch similar attacks until all Israeli Jews were exterminated.”

As a postscript, thirty-four student organizations at Harvard issued a statement on October 10, before Israeli troops had entered Gaza, holding the Israeli regime entirely responsible for the killings. These products of the Leftist and Islamist faculty at our elite universities will soon become the leaders of American society. And not long afterwards, the same Hamas murderers who bragged about the atrocities were insisting they had never happened.

Shockingly, an Israeli study of articles highlighted during the first seven months of the war in the New York Times’ daily newsletter, “Today’s Headlines,” showed nearly five times as many sympathizing with the Palestinians as sympathetic to the Israelis. Then again, this shouldn’t be so surprising since the global media, from the Times to CNN to the BBC and so on, have been conducting an anti-Israel reporting campaign for years which intensified after October 7, as exemplified by the nearly universal acceptance of the Gaza Health Ministry’s lie that on October 17 Israel bombed a hospital in Gaza, causing at least 471 deaths, when subsequent investigation showed that the blast was caused by an errant homemade Islamic Jihad rocket that landed in the parking lot with a death toll of about fifty. In fact, it would have been impossible to pull 471 bodies out of the wreckage in the short time it took for the false report to spread around the world.

What many of us seem not to comprehend is that whatever starts with the Jews doesn’t end with the Jews. The same Marxist/Islamist cabal that is turning Jews in general and Israelis in particular into global pariahs is doing the same to working-class white (or as they are sometimes now referred to, European) Americans whom they regard as disposable refuse. (Witness, for example, Barack Obama’s condescending dismissal of those who “cling to their God and their guns”).

Thus, when a quarrel in Cincinnati turned into a full-scale debacle, with young Blacks pummeling, sucker-punching, and jack stomping middle-aged whites to the approval of a crowd of Black bystanders, the chattering classes in politics and their sycophants in the media who are fueling racial strife in America enjoyed the spectacle and found excuses for the participants. As Rebecca Parks noted in the July 31 Daily Signal, City Council member Victoria Parks, who is not running for re-election, felt free to express her views. She wrote that “They begged for that beatdown. I am grateful for the whole story.”  Iris Roley, a consultant for the city and an advisor in the city manager’s office, posted similar comments on social media. And Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval refrained from making any comment until the following Monday. At a Friday press conference, he admitted not having contacted any of the victims but said that while the incident was horrific, there are other public safety concerns and he doesn’t call or visit every victim of violent crime. This response from the city mirrors in microcosm the handling of previous urban riots.

In short, terror tactics pay, especially when they’re directed against politically disfavored nations or identity groups. Perhaps the most dangerous of all is that Ms. Rachel, a popular children’s content creator, is filling millions of young American children with pro-Palestinian messages, which gives us reason for concern that the next generation of twenty-somethings following Gen Z could be as anti-Semitic as the Hitler Youth.

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