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‘Moral monstrosity’: NY Dem lawmaker rips DSA for ‘indoctrinating’ young people with ‘anti-Israel hatred’

October 15, 2023 | | Print Article

A congressional Democrat, of all people, is out with a column blasting the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) for their tacit support of Hamas.

As previously reported, after last week’s terror attack in Israel, the DSA promoted an anti-Semitic rally where swastikas were seen.

The group eventually backtracked and issued an apology, but even that wasn’t good enough for Democrat Rep. Ritchie Torres, as seen below:

But Torres wasn’t done. He’s now out with a New York Post column in which he rightly notes that the “ONLY morally acceptable response” to last week’s terror attack is outrage. And the reason why is obvious.

“Oct 7 is a day that will live in infamy as the most gruesome terrorist attack in the history of the Jewish State. Thousands of Israelis were murdered, raped, tortured, and abducted as hostages,” his piece reads.

“Ten percent of the members of an Israeli kibbutz, Kfar Asar, were massacred. About 260 young Israelis partying at a music festival were gunned down. Babies were butchered, burned and beheaded,” it continues.

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Thankfully, “most of the civilized world,” including President Joe Biden, did respond with outrage. But not everybody.

“Imagine, for a moment, the inconsolable grief of a Jewish mother whose baby has been butchered to death. Could you imagine anything more callous and cruel than telling that grieving mother: You had it coming. You and your people brought the terror upon yourselves,” his piece continues.

“Those were the shocking sentiments of the New York City-Democratic Socialists of America (NYC-DSA), which wasted no time in holding a hate rally romanticizing the terrorism of Hamas as ‘resistance.'”

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But as noted by Torres, the DSA “was hardly alone in blaming the victims of terrorism rather than the terrorists themselves.” It became a national phenomenon, with multiple groups, professors, etc., all spewing the same bile. What’s one to conclude? Easy. That “something is rotten in the state of America.”

“When the institutional leaders in our country cannot condemn the cold-blooded murder of Israeli children and civilians with moral clarity, one must ask: what kind of society are we becoming? What does the silence and indifference and cowardice — from these so-called leaders — tell us about the depth of anti-Semitism in America and the reckoning required?” Torres writes.

“The time has come to confront not only the symptoms but the disease: a Democratic Socialist industrial complex that indoctrinates young Americans with an anti-Israel hatred so virulent that it renders them indifferent to the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust,” he continues.

Or anti-Israel extremism, as he calls it. Something that, sadly, “has been given a veneer of mainstream respectability in law schools and legislatures” (not to mention the media) thanks to weak-kneed leaders being too scared to call it out for what it is: HATE.

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Take all the universities where pro-Hamas rallies were held last week but where the university leaders were too cowardly to condemn the rallies.

“Northwestern University, for example, said it had no plans to ‘put out a statement officially stating a University position.’ Imagine that: a university that cannot be bothered to take a position on a pogrom against Jews. Have we learned nothing from the long and ugly history of Anti-Semitism?” Torres writes.

“There is nothing accidental about the disregard for Israeli life that revealed itself in the wake of Oct. 7. The dehumanization of Israeli victims follows inevitably from the hyperbolic and systematic demonization of Israel itself,” he adds.

The problem, he reckons, is that “anti-Israel hate and hysteria” have been permitted to bloom unimpeded in America’s institutions. And that has to stop.

“The anti-Israel hate increasingly possessing the American mind is a demon that must be exorcised from our body politic. For America cannot long remain a decent society if the next generation of Americans are made to be indifferent to the barbaric butchering of Israeli civilians and children,” he explains.

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“I, for one, stand with Israel as it seeks to defend itself. Despite the profound pain of the present, Israel will emerge from it all better and stronger than ever before. It will outlive the pernicious lies and the dangerous demagogues who tell them. It will outlive the extremism of the DSA and BDS. It will outlive the terrorism of Iran and its proxies, Hamas and Hezbollah,” he concludes.

Vivek Saxena
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