Mazal tov! Partisans on the left and on the right, fighting bitterly for a larger swath of America’s increasingly divided political landscape, have now found a goal around which to unite in harmony: The Jews are our misfortune.
Talk to your average committed progressive, and you’ll soon hear one or another rant about Palestine, variations on the theme of how it’s a darn shame that Jewish political influence is directing American weapons to Israel, where they’re being used to facilitate a genocide in Gaza. That this phase of the war itself erupted only after Hamas’s savage attack, or that it can end the moment the terror group returns the civilians it still holds hostage—these are treated as superfluous details. What matters is the raw sentiment that powers the contemporary progressive movement and holds that America is complicit in Israel’s colonial wars. It’s a powerful enough rallying cry to place Zohran Mamdani, a political wannabe with a virtually nonexistent resume, within striking distance of becoming the mayor of New York City. Forget income inequality or social justice or all the other pinko chestnuts of old—all you need to do to excite the left these days is to chant “globalize the Intifada.”
