Three years ago today, on Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas jihadis indulged in an orgy of rape and murder of Israelis, murdering 1,200 people and destroying the lives of many more than that. October 7 thus stands as a date which will live in infamy, like July 7 (the jihad bombings in London) and September 11 (the jihad hijackings in New York and Washington). But October 7 also stands as the beginning of a new and ugly era, one which is still very much with us, in which hatred of Jews has once again become socially acceptable to express, and Israel is more isolated on the world stage than ever before. From all appearances, it’s only going to get worse from here.
The first indication of the new and sinister world order were the demonstrations on campuses all over the country, with thoroughly indoctrinated far-left students denouncing Israel virtually from the moment Hamas concluded its jihad massacres. This was clearly an effort coordinated from above, although who exactly was behind it has never been definitively established.
Still, the signs were unmistakable: the courageous Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) sneered at the students who were thinking they were accomplishing something by, as he put it, living in “pup tents for Hamas,” but something else was striking about those pup tents as well: they were all the same. On campus after campus, the students who were camping out on their university grounds to protest Israel had tents that were all of the same model. These were not spontaneous demonstrations that student activists had undertaken of their own accord, dragging out their camping equipment from dad’s garage; these were carefully orchestrated, astoturfed displays.
In any case, Fetterman was also right about the Hamas part. In 23 years of covering jihad activity daily at jihadwatch.org, I can say with certainty that before October 7, I saw only a handful of occasions in which anyone in the U.S. dared to express open support for Hamas or any other jihad terror group. After October 7, open and vehement support of Hamas became commonplace to the extent that it is not remotely an exaggeration, much less an insult, to call the anti-Israel protests that engulfed North America and Europe “pro-Hamas demonstrations.”
At the same time, the broad pro-Israel consensus that was one of the last policies on which leftists and patriots could agree began to break down. Under pressure from the vocal Muslim congresswomen Rashida Tlaib (D-Ramallah) and Ilhan Omar (D-Mogadishu), as well as their non-Muslim comrades, the far-left Biden regime began to denounce Israel and to withhold from it needed military weaponry. The false claim that Israel was committing “genocide” in Gaza became mainstream, and is taken for granted in many circles to this day.
That was just the beginning. As the Democratic Socialists of America have become the most energized and powerful force within the Democrat Party, open support for Israel as facing a common jihadi foe that also threatens the United States became politically toxic among Democrats. Today, if you openly support Hamas, you can gain the support of the Democratic establishment and go far in your political career. If, however, you support Israel, you’re a dinosaur in the Democrat Party, and any political aspirations you may have are under a cloud that shows no signs of dissipating.
Then the same movement away from Israel began among patriots as well. Influential supporters of Israel, with Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens leading the way, not only abandoned their previous support for Israel, but even began repeating ancient antisemitic myths that had not had a hearing in decent society since the National Socialists ruled Germany. “America-Firsters” such as Nick Fuentes and his followers boosted false claims about Israel’s supposed dependence upon the United States, and argued that the U.S. alliance with Israel undermined America’s sovereignty. None of them bothered to explain why an alliance with a country whose foes also target us, and that shares our societal values, was detrimental to the U.S.
This would have been an insignificant movement, even with Carlson and Owens leading the anti-Israel mob, were it not for the fact that Carlson in particular has friends in high places, notably, Vice President JD Vance. Should Vance be elected president in 2028, he has already made it clear that the U.S./Israel alliance would be in for a serious reevaluation. If a Democrat is elected, that alliance will likely end outright.
All this was set in motion on October 7. The global demonization and isolation of Israel, and the deterioration of the friendship and alliance between the U.S. and the Jewish state, began when Hamas jihadis massacred Israelis wholesale. It has been an exercise in victim-blaming on a global scale, and it will not end with any development that anyone could characterize as remotely positive.
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