(New York Times) Bret Stephens - On Sunday in midtown Manhattan, a rally of pro-Palestinian groups celebrated the murder of hundreds of people in Israel. I went to see the rally for myself. What I saw was giddiness and gloating, as if someone's team had won the World Cup. Hamas had perpetrated the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, and the crowd was euphoric. In London, 5,000 demonstrators gathered near the Israeli embassy and shot off fireworks toward the building. At Harvard, almost three dozen campus groups issued a joint statement holding "the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence." Give the protesters and manifesto writers points for honesty. "Pro-Palestine," to many of them, is pro-Hamas. "Anti-occupation" is opposition to Israel's right to exist in any form. Israelis are guilty by virtue of being Israelis, so their murder and humiliation is something to laugh at.
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