On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas killers slaughtered 1,200 people, more than two-thirds of them civilians, inside Israel.
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thirds → slaughter → Israel
For the ensuing three weeks, they refused Israel’s demands to turn over the 251 hostages and to surrender the architects of the massacre.
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they → ensue → massacre
No matter — within a day of the attacks, when Hamas gunmen were still fighting Israeli troops on Israeli soil, the American left was already screaming “genocide!”
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left → fight → genocide
They did not mean Hamas’ intended genocide of Jews, a foretaste of which was seen when it launched a surprise invasion force of more than 4,000 terrorists some 15 miles into Israel.
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it → mean → Israel
The killers were accompanied by some 2,000 “innocent” Gazan “civilians.”
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killers → accompany → civilians
Nor did the “genocide” chorus refer to the more than 13,000 rockets, missiles and drones launched from Gaza after Oct. 7 that predominantly targeted Israeli civilian neighborhoods.
What was most surreal about the charges of “genocide” against Israel — along with all the other slurs of “settler-colonialism,” “apartheid,” “occupation,” “war crimes” — was that they so often came from elite first- and second-generation Middle Eastern immigrants to America.
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they → refer → America
Yet these prominent American accusers have remained silent about whether their lurid charges might far better reflect the sordid histories of their own homelands.
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charges → remain → homelands
Take the Turkish-American anchor baby Hasan Piker, the millionaire podcaster who has dual citizenship and grew up in Turkey.
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who → take → Turkey
Piker has gained celebrity as the socialist heartthrob who is the brain of the new democratic socialist/Islamist alliance.
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who → gain → alliance
Besides his antisemitic rants, he has declared that “America deserved 9/11” and “Oh God, I f–king hate America so much.”
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I → declare → America
Yet the outspoken Piker has only once in passing mentioned Turkey’s 1974 invasion of Cyprus, and its half-century-long occupation of nearly 40% of it.
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Piker → mention → it
Nor did Piker, who damns the creation of Israel in 1948, ever say a word about the Turkish torching of the historic Greek-majority Ionian city of Smyrna in 1922, which incinerated tens of thousands of civilians.
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which → damn → civilians
Given Piker’s supposedly vast historical recall and outspoken human-rights advocacy, one would at least expect him to be sensitive to the horror of Turkey’s Armenian genocide, in which Turkish troops slaughtered more than 1 million civilians, and for which the Turkish government still denies any culpability.
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government → give → culpability
But when once challenged by Armenian-Americans, he dismissed them — saying flippantly, “It’s more fun to enrage you.”
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It → challenge → you
And the pattern goes beyond mere podcasters.
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pattern → go → podcasters
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), a first-generation immigrant from Somalia, also brays loudly about supposed Israeli war crimes.
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Omar → bray → crimes
Omar spouts “genocide” and “apartheid” in her frequently antisemitic rants.
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Omar → spout → rants
She has labeled her adopted nation as “one of the worst countries” in the world.
But Omar is the daughter of a well-known colonel in the truly genocidal army of Somali dictator Siad Barre.
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Omar → label → Barre
The latter waged a decade-long war of extermination against the rival Isaaq clan that opposed Barre’s 21-year-long dictatorship.
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that → wag → dictatorship
Estimates of the Barre regime’s murderous toll range from 50,000 to 200,000 killed, mostly civilians.
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Estimates → range → civilians
Few in Omar’s politically active Somali immigrant community ever concede that many of them fled Somalia to America only when Barre’s two-decade reign of terror was finally overthrown, and they feared retaliation from his victims.
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they → concede → victims
Of course, the nation’s biggest leftist rising star has also joined in.
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star → rise → ?
Zohran Mamdani, mayor of New York City, employs the same tired anti-Israeli and anti-American verbiage.
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Mamdani → employ → verbiage
Yet he went further than other antisemites when he launched grandstanding threats to jail Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu any time the latter visited New York to address the United Nations.
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latter → go → Nations
For America’s 250th birthday, Mamdani’s July 3 “commemorative” address blasted American “monopolies that dominate every industry,” federal agents supposedly “terrorizing our streets,” and a country where we “sell our elections to the highest bidder.”
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we → blast → bidder
The calumny was odd coming from a dual citizen of the police state of Uganda, where there are no real elections but lots of Indian “monopolies.”
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calumny → come → monopolies
Indeed, Mamdani himself better fits his own charges of “settler-colonist” and “apartheid.”
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Mamdani → fit → colonist
His Indian community in Uganda comprises less than 0.1% of the population — but somehow still accounts for over 60% of Uganda’s GDP.
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community → comprise → GDP
It was implanted there by 19th-century British imperialists as a “settler-colonial” community to help control the indigenous black population.
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It → implant → population
In short, we should remind these privileged ingrates — regardless of what corner of the world they hail from — to look inward before they blast their adopted country.
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they → remind → country
And we should ask them not to project the sins of their own homelands upon either Israel or America.
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we → ask → Israel
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