From the Party of Robert Kennedy to the Party of Sirhan Sirhan

... unlike Robert Kennedy's stances in 1948 and in 1967, stances shared widely at the time by Americans, including Democrats, the response in October 2023, particularly in Democratic bastions such as academia, was widespread, militant support for the perpetrators of the massacre and for their agenda of Israel’s extirpation “from the river to the sea.”

And the anti-Israel bias has infected much of the Democratic leadership. Jew-hatred is purveyed by members of Congress such as Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, and the anti-Israel agenda has long been pushed by the dozens of Democratic members who make common cause with the Council on American-Islamic Relations - named by the government as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case that resulted in convictions for financing Hamas - and with other, similar organizations. Their antisemitism and antizionism now largely define the Democratic delegation's stance on Israel. Members commonly spout the "genocide" Big Lie of the last three years...

... in 2005 Israel unilaterally withdrew its entire presence from Gaza and handed Gaza to the PA, providing Palestinians with an opportunity to turn the territory into another Hong Kong or Singapore. That move toward peace likewise blew up in Israel's face, with Hamas’s seizing control of Gaza from the Palestinian Authority in 2007 and launching four wars against Israel even before October 2023. The October 7 massacre came during a truce and while Israel was facilitating the transfer of billions of dollars to Hamas from Qatar and allowing thousands of Gazans to work in Israel, indirectly providing additional funds to Hamas...

The roots of that hostility lie largely in the capturing of American academia and other Democratic bastions by the Red-Green alliance of antisemitic Far Leftists and Islamists...

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) platform, much of which parrots the anti-capitalist and anti-American memes of the USSR, includes as one of its four foreign policy goals the dissolution of Israel...

Of course, Israel did not take land off the Palestinians at its founding; it took the land it had been granted by the United Nations and the Palestinians could have done the same instead of trying to destroy Israel. But they chose to go to war to seize everything "from the river to the sea," which had never been theirs...