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Source: https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/381690/witness-to-jihad/
Witness to Jihad
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) Kathleen Hayes - For 25 years, I belonged to an insular, authoritarian Trotskyist organization. After the murders of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington, I'm gripped with the sense that the deranged sect I left behind is now everywhere, spawning toxic new cells, scoring previously unimaginable victories. I'm quite familiar with the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the radical Maoist organization the murderer once belonged to. Before quitting my former group in 2016, I marched countless times in demonstrations organized by ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), another activist group Elias Rodriguez apparently belonged to. His beliefs and delusions were, broadly speaking, mine. Today they're shared by a wide swath of liberal society - people who would never shoot a young man and woman in cold blood, but who think there's a context in which the shootings are, if not justifiable, then at least comprehensible as a response to Israel's "genocide." They're starting with the Jews, but of course they won't end there. As Columbia University's pro-Palestinian Apartheid Divest declared last year: "We are Westerners fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization." The writer is the author of Antisemitism and the Left: A Memoir.