There was a time when people in the U.S. were sickened and appalled by the images they were seeing from the Nazi extermination camps. How could this happen in one of the most culturally advanced nations in the history of the world, Americans wondered. Except perhaps for some fringe types, Americans were united in declaring with the Jews "Never again."
Disgusted by what had happened to the Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe, we even supported the establishment of a Jewish state carved out of the desert in British-run Palestine.
Well, that was then. From what we've witnessed on our campuses this week there are lots of young people who are perfectly willing to see it happen again. There are lots of our children who have no qualms about aligning themselves in solidarity with those who raped, tortured and murdered 1300 people last weekend.
This act of almost incomprehensible savagery was, in their depraved minds, justified "resistance."
And those who think this way are not just on our campuses. There's been an effort in the progressive media to draw a kind of moral equivalence between the Israelis and those who slaughtered them, an effort to actually blame Israel for what the Hamas butchers did. There's also been a strange reluctance to identify those butchers as "terrorists" or to demand the release of the hostages held by Hamas.
We're now seeing the left for who they really are and the picture is not pretty. If anyone wonders how the holocaust in Germany could have ever happened all they need do is look at our elite campuses and left-wing media. Our contemporary brownshirts are crawling out into the sunlight and showing themselves to be cut from the same fabric as the hate-filled architects of the Nazis' Final Solution.
But we should be glad, in a way, that they are. It's instructive to see exactly what progressives in this country really believe as opposed to what they've wanted us, for the last two generations, to think they believed.