Heretic hunting

People who disagree with you about everything are bad. People who disagree with you just a little are pure evil.

I’ve noticed something interesting about the anti-Israel - and increasingly, openly pro-Hamas and pro-mass-murder - protests which emerged after the October 7 pogrom.¹

That is, they never seem to target the most explicitly pro-Israel candidate in the 2024 Presidential race, nor his Republican allies.

On the Israeli partisan spectrum, Joe Biden would be a moderate while Donald Trump would arguably be to the right of Netanyahu, out there with the most extreme West Bank settlers.

Trying to find a consistent thread through Trump’s foreign policy beliefs, statements and actions is enough to drive one mad, but it’s hard to imagine him pushing back against any proposed Israeli action, up to and including annexation of the West Bank and Gaza.

But the pro-pogrom crowd has largely left him alone. They have taken over several universities, and angrily protest exhi…