Last week, the nation joined in a chorus of condemnation when a self-avowed white nationalist killed one woman and wounded three other worshippers at the Chabad of Poway, Calif. It was a senseless anti-Semitic hate crime that deserved to be condemned without reservation.
A week later, four Israelis, including one Bedouin, were killed and 10 others were wounded by rocket fire from Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists in Gaza that rained down on their streets, homes and places of work.
This time, many of the same voices that were so loud about Poway and the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh last October were either muted or — as in the case of Reps Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) — actually rationalized and even defending these acts of terrorism.
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