Antisemitism Is an Urgent Problem. Too Many People Are Making Excuses.

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81. Untrue?

Socialist rally in Times Square praising Hamas terror attack draws widespread condemnation

At a pro-Hamas rally on Sunday in the heart of New York City, speaker after speaker praised the slaughter of civilians that had taken place in Israel the day before, after the militant group overwhelmed Israeli defenses in an audacious, unexpected raid.

“And as you might have seen, there was some sort of rave or desert party where they were having a great time, until the resistance came in electrified hang gliders and took at least several dozen hipsters,” one speaker joked about the Hamas assault on a desert rave, where horrific scenes of murder and rape took place.

It was a bracing spectacle that countered the grief pouring in from most civic leaders, from Brooklyn to Berlin. But it was also evidence of a split within the Democratic Party, with many younger activists, forged in the Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter movements, viscerally identifying with the Palestinian cause. Israel’s founding story, as a quasi-socialist refuge for Holocaust survivors and other landless Jews, resonates less and less, especially as younger generations show little knowledge about the murder of 6 million Jews by the Nazis.

The controversial rally in Times Square was hosted by the Democratic Socialists of America, a far-left organization that includes several prominent House members in its ranks,…

https://www.yahoo.com/news/socialist-rally-in-times-square-praising-hamas-terror-attack-draws-widespread-condemnation-204123785.html

I cut the paragraph off, which goes on to mention some members of Congress who are DSA members. I do not want to imply that I am maintaining those individuals are antisemitic by association..

However, the rally by a far left organization did happen that is a fact that cannot be denied.