Anti-Israel sentiment on university campuses and in street protests has sparked anger among a nation of people often aligned with the political left in the US.
For Abraham Orden, a 43-year-old Jewish software executive from the Washington suburbs, the first inkling that the reaction to Hamas’ terror attack in southern Israel might not be what he anticipated came just hours after the assault had begun.
For many American Jews, the slaughter in Israel has been devastating, frightening and all-consuming – an attack that some are likening to a modern replay of the pogroms a century ago in Eastern Europe that brought their families to the US in the first place. That same sense was captured by Lawrence Summers, the former Harvard president, when he posted on X, formerly Twitter, that he was “sickened” by the university’s failure to distance itself from the statement of its pro-Palestine student groups.
“It’s so upsetting,” said Laszlo Mizrahi, who knew eight people who were killed by Hamas. A friend’s son was taken hostage. Her synagogue in Maryland did not wish to publish details of a planned vigil for fear it would be targeted, she said, while also expressing heartbreak for innocent Palestinians.
At the highest levels, Democrats supported Israel in highly visible fashion last week. Biden not only condemned Hamas but also recognised its atrocities. In Congress, members of a Jewish caucus who, as one consultant put it, “usually can’t even agree on a deli order”, swiftly found unity.
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