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Source: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/how-america-betrayed-edan-alexander/
How Some Americans Betrayed Edan Alexander
(Spectator-UK) Brendan O'Neill - When a U.S. citizen, just 19, was taken captive by a fascist militia, some Americans wrapped their faces in the keffiyeh in gleeful mimicry of the militants who seized their compatriot. They cheered the jailers of their fellow citizen. "Glory to our martyrs," some cried, meaning the radical Islamists who had dragged their teenage countryman into a hellish lair and kept him there for 583 days. Even as we share in the joy of the Alexander family, we must never forget how others in the U.S. betrayed this young American. Some even became unpaid propagandists for his captors. For 18 months, America's self-styled "anti-fascists" didn't so much as mention the words "Edan Alexander." They saved their warm words for his persecutors. That American radicals expressed more sympathy for Hamas than for its victims, even the American ones, is surely one of the greatest betrayals of decency of our time.