A couple of weeks ago, I attended the traveling Nova exhibit in DC, memorializing the torture, rape, murders and kidnappings of hundreds of peaceful young Israelis by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival on October 7, 2023. The exhibit brought back the emotions I felt in July 2024, visiting the site of Nova, Kibbutz Nir Oz, and other sites where Hamas gleefully committed the worst imaginable atrocities against any civilians they encountered: Hamas, like the Nazis, represents a sort of depraved evil that is almost impossible to fathom.
Yesterday, I had a long thread on X explaining why the antizionist ideology of people like Peter Beinart inevitably leads them to support genocidal policies toward Israeli Jews. I noted that Beinart had a brief period of soul-searching immediately after 10/7, and then went back to business as usual.
Shany Mor then pointed out that Beinart and others similarly-situated ended their brief period of soul-searching when Israel was alleged to have killed five hundred civilians in a direct attack on a hospital in Gaza. It turned out that the alleged attack never happened; rather, an Islamic Jihad missile aimed at Israel fell short, hit the hospital parking lot, and killed or wounded several dozen people. All the details implicating Israel were fabricated. Nevertheless, the initial attack provided Beinart et al. with an opportunity for a Two Minute Hate, and thereafter they snapped out of their October 7 funk and resumed their prior role as Hamas apologists and Israel-haters.
