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Behind the Aegis

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Wed May 28, 2025, 12:21 AM May 28

(JEWISH GROUP) How anti-Israel rhetoric led to the killing of 2 in Washington, DC [View all]

If there was ever a time for reckoning in the anti-Israel movement, this is it.

The cold-blooded murder of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim in Washington, D.C., last night should mark the beginning of the end — preferably the end of the end — of the zombie belief that the only path to a “Free Palestine” is to abolish Israel.

Now we see where that eliminationist ideology can lead: to murder.

The legitimate struggle for Palestinian rights, the necessary opposition to the current Israeli government’s callous and self-defeating policies, the crucial work of forging coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians — all that has been hijacked by an international movement poisoned by violence and hatred.

No, not everyone who marches for a ceasefire, or in solidarity with suffering Gazans, is calling for the end of Israel.

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