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the third time in eight days, Boston police were forced to intervene
when a small group of student Israel supporters was swarmed by
demonstrators screaming anti-Semitic epithets and initiating physical
contact, said students involved in the incident…A handful of Jewish
students with Israeli flags was surrounded by demonstrators shouting
anti-Semitic epithets and – according to two of the students – a tense
minute of “pushing and shoving.” Soon after the “die-in” ended, Brett
Loewenstern — a Berklee College of Music student and pro-Israel activist
– entered the fray with his boyfriend, Israeli-born Avi Levi. According
to Loewenstern, he and his boyfriend’s combining of an Israeli flag
with a rainbow flag – the symbol for gay rights – set off a hailstorm of
insults from demonstrators. Among other things, the shouts included
“Jews back to Birkenau” and “Drop dead, you Zionazi whores,” said
Loewenstern and other witnesses…During a gathering outside the Boston
Public Library on Thursday evening, police had to protect Valdary and
student activist Daniel Mael from what Valdary called “hundreds of
people shouting ‘Allah is great.’”The mere presence of a gay pro-Israel couple at the rally “set off a hailstorm” of venom from Hamas supporters that would no doubt be national news by now if the epithets had been hurled by, say, Tea Partiers. (Incidentally, I’ve never been able to square the circle of grassroots Lefties’ anti-Israel attitudes. The tiny nation is an oasis of pluralistic democracy in an autocratic and oppressive neighborhood, it boasts a robust nationalized healthcare system, and it proudly protects the rights of women and gays. And yet many on the far Left aggressively side with Israel’s violent, intolerant — and in some cases, genocidal — adversaries. Why?) In any case, let’s forget about these Holocaust- and death-celebrating slurs, and ignore disgusting scenes like this. All Hamas is (currently) requesting in exchange for a ceasefire is an Israeli pledge to lift its blockade of Gaza, thus flinging open the floodgates for even more weapons to stream into the hands of terrorists, equipping them to launch additional salvos against Israeli civilians. That’s all. Palestinian violence, the apologists claim, is ultimately about policy disputes, so “peace” requires Israel to end the blockade. Or release terrorist prisoners. Or uproot its settlements. Or divide up its capital city. Or, you know, cease to exist. The demands and pretexts for violence may be slippery, but the goal remains the same: Annihilating the Jewish State. Not all criticism of Israel’s actions is rooted in anti-Semitism, of course, but a lot of it is. Look no further than elements of the ‘Free Palestine’ crowd’s impulse to attack synagogues, rather than picket Israeli consulates and embassies. And look no further than the abominable rhetoric flying at increasingly violent “anti-Israel” protests in Europe:
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