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October 20, 2023

Anti-Israel Demonstrators Rejoiced Not Despite the Brutality, but Because of It

Scenes in London that make the blood run cold.

Of course, Western activists who claim to be agitated about the parlous state of Gazans will not be protesting at the Egyptian or Jordanian embassies. But there have been demonstrations in the U.S., and in several European cities, that can only be described as pro-Hamas. And these began not as a reaction to Israel’s military response to the assault on its population, but as a reaction to Hamas’s assault itself. Just yesterday, a video circulated on social media that appeared to show students marching through the halls of a California high school chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!” Theodore Dalrymple reflects on the situation in Britain:

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