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For almost 50 years that I have been alive, Americans have been so protected from evil that many people no longer recognize it.
During that time, the United States has never faced sustained terrorism or been in a war zone. By and large, when we witness atrocities, it’s thousands of miles away, even from the comfort of our couches.
For those old enough to remember 9/11, the shock of 9/11 is rooted in how unthinkable it was, the Pearl Harbor of Lower Manhattan; It’s never happened before, and importantly, it hasn’t happened since.
Jewish students at New York University witness being locked inside the library as anti-Israel protests move through the building
For Israelis, the October 7 attacks were not inconceivable, and certainly unprecedented in their scale and brutality, but they have been staring down suicide bombings and rocket attacks for decades. They recognize the evil depravity of Hamas’ actions.
I remember a time when, outside of the remotest parts of this country, no one justified the killing, rape, and torture of civilians on grounds of social justice or geopolitical justice, and even today, Such justifications are all around us.
Michigan’s incumbent congresswoman, Democrat Rashida Tlaib, has spread Hamas propaganda on social media, elite law school students have refused to condemn the October 7 atrocities, and Jewish Thousands took to the streets to celebrate the child’s murder.
On Wednesday, Jewish students at Cooper Union in New York City barricaded themselves in a library to protect themselves from pro-Hamas protesters, eventually evacuating through a tunnel.
In the United States.
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Meanwhile, the New York Times has surprisingly made a decision to rehire Soliman Hiji, a journalist who has publicly praised Adolf Hitler many times, to cover wars involving the Jewish state. defended.
Apparently they had a conversation with him, he understood their concerns, and that was enough.
In America, where I was born, when the Americans who liberated the Nazi concentration camps were middle-aged, Hitler and Nazism meant such a terrible evil that nothing could be said in defense of it, and ambiguity was not allowed.
This is largely because these men and women paid the personal price of war to bring down an evil regime, and many witnessed its horrors in rotting flesh.
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What is important to understand is that moral relativism privileges only those who are safe from the effects of bad moral choices.
These college students and protesters are not paying the price for their ruthless support of violent terrorists. For them, it might be like a midnight game of risk in a dormitory, where America is always the bad guy.
This is how strange absurdities like “Queer for Palestine” are born.
From the safety of the West Village, it’s easy to throw away the rainbow flag and chant “from the river to the sea,” but in Gaza, just being gay can get you arrested or worse. There is sex.
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The irony, of course, is that these coddled elites and activists live almost completely secure because of the very American power and values they loathe.
Americans of conscience, just as our society did half a century ago, must completely reject moral ambiguity in the face of the pure evil perpetrated by Hamas.
There is both good and evil in the world, but refusing to name them and giving comfort and aid to fear is a disservice to generations of people who have fought for a more moral, just, and equal society. It would be a betrayal of the American people.
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It is right to shame those who support such evil, simply to rescind the offer and protect our organization from those who justify Hamas’s atrocities.
After all, students at elite law schools become U.S. attorneys and federal judges, but if they can support the slaughter of infants in the name of social justice, then they have no American right to achieve it. Is there any doubt that it will infringe?
This is a moral line, and there are consequences for those who cross it.
163 years ago, on the eve of the Civil War to end the evil of slavery, Abraham Lincoln took to the stage at the same Cooper Union where Jews were rounded up this week.
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He ended his famous speech with these words:
“Let us have faith that justice produces strength. In that faith, let us boldly fulfill our duty as we understand it, to the end.”
That obligation begins by calling Hamas and its actions what they really are: the true, heinous face of evil.
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