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It's interesting to see that some on the left are waking up to what their movement is and who they're in bed with. Michelle Goldberg of the New York Times may be someone on that list:

https://archive.ph/WDKa8
The Massacre in Israel and the Need for a Decent Left
Oct. 12,

Yeah, that ship's sailed.

Of all the people he spoke to, he said, those most devastated were either people who had lost close friends or family, or young Jews 'completely shattered by the response of their lefty friends in New York,' who were either justifying Hamas's atrocities or celebrating them outright.
This sense of deep betrayal is not limited to New York. Many progressive Jews have been profoundly shaken by the way some on the left are treating the terrorist mass murder of civilians as noble acts of anticolonial resistance.

Yup.

But the way keyboard radicals have condoned war crimes against Israelis has left many progressive Jews alienated from political communities they thought were their own.
By now, you've probably seen examples.

Yup. There have been many.
And she gets to the heart of modern leftism:
The left has always attracted certain people who relish the struggle against oppression primarily for the way it licenses their own cruelty; they are one reason movements on the left so reliably produce embittered apostates. Plenty of leftists have long fetishized revolutionary violence in poor countries, perhaps as a way of coping with their own ineffectuality. Che Guevara didn't become a dorm room icon only for his motorcycle and rakish beret.

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