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I have never been a knee-jerk voter but have seen how just seven congressional republicans were able to oust Kevin McCarthy from the Speakership. Then I recall how 15 Congressional Democrats voted against a law to deny US entry to any Hamas member. Then I see that virtually every individual railing against Israel votes Democratic and I feel compelled to vote Republican or abstain.

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Excellent, and much needed, perspective on what happened, and what continues to happen in Israel. That the American professoriate, of which I once belonged, has given in to this sort of ideological nonsense that leads to actual deaths, rapes, and torture is inexplicable. I am very grateful for The Free Press and the great work you all are doing.

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America allowed its universities to be infiltrated and later controlled by Marxist activists.

Education was replaced with indoctrination and students converted to progressive acolytes with a mission to promote moral, intellectual and social revolt.

This is the result and a testimony to tolerance gone a bridge too far.

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Words cannot express how grateful I am for The Free Press, and how disgusted I am by the abominable behavior of American citizens (and others) "protesting" on behalf of terrorists and murderers. What is wrong with people?? I am a Catholic who loves your podcast "Honestly" as well as the Commentary Magazine podcast, which I began listening to several years ago at my son's recommendation. After the horrific attacks of Oct 7, 2023, I became a subscriber because I felt I ~HAD~ to do something to register my love and support for Israel. All I can say is that these protesters cannot possibly understand what they are doing. They have been fed a steady diet of oppression bullshit and the U.S. should be demanding the release of the American hostages every single day. We are not the same country we were when I was young. And I miss that country.

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I really can't add anything constructive but as an Asian American I was shocked and ashamed at how many Asian American (mostly young women indoctrinated by the public schools and universities) ripping down hostage posters and chanting pro Hamas and anti Jewish slogans. A poison is spreading in this country. These people weren't taught this at home. It came from the institutions. Don't want to play politics on this grave issue but the institutions are captured and controlled by one particular party. Think about that.

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Thank goodness for The Free Press and its excellent journalists, home based or invited. My subscribing to The Free Press was such a good decision.

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Words cannot express the vile reaction that wells up inside when I see the ignorance of those who would aid in the destruction of Israel. I am not Jewish. I’m American. The wolf is at the door. There will be an attack on our soil. We will be attacked by those who believe there can be no Jewish state, no Christian state, no state that does not follow sharia law. The support that has flowed from our universities, our media, our politicians, and our social media activists, will be complicit in the bloodshed of Americans. There will be no accountability. Do not expect it. Only ready yourselves. October 7th can happen here. Do not be blind to eventuality.

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First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people.

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Like you, I didn't expect to see Americans celebrate Hamas's atrocities against Jews. Especially not those Americans -- privileged, educated (or getting-educated) heirs to the tradition of campus activism. It was not just appalling but staggering, because it was something unheard-of in progressive politics: positively rejoicing in atrocities against any ethnic group, in the name of any cause.

This grotesque mutation became possible when a force from the Old World insinuated itself into New World politics. The radical protests of the past were generally driven by people steeped in intellectual conceits, but the ones we're seeing now are driven by people steeped in visceral hatred. American students who've joined in these protests thinking of it as their progressive coming-of-age need to understand that following the lead of Students for Justice in Palestine is not at all like following the lead of Students for a Democratic Society.

https://thefamilyproperty.blogspot.com/2023/11/savagery.html

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So incredibly well written, and so much what many of us feel right now. Thank you Bari Weiss. Never give up, never surrender!!!

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Hussein's story has literally left me speechless... and full of hope that we will be rid of the scourge of Hezbollah with the IDF and God's help... in sh'Allah...

Thank you for covering this war from it's outset in the most compassionate way... and for bringing so many wonderful voices to our ears... shana tova umetuka yoter...

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Thank you, Bari. I have appreciated TFP’s truth-seeking coverage of Israel, antisemitism, and anti-West sentiment throughout the past year. The comments section often gets after you for not supporting Trump and threaten to unsubscribe because of it. I think what you and TFP offer is valuable no matter who you personally choose to vote for. I don’t think you owe it to your readers to reveal how you mark your ballot. I also don’t think it fits with TFP’s mission to have all its readers support the same candidate. There are other outlets for people who want to stay safely in a bubble of confirmation bias and groupthink. I see TFP as trying to offer something of value to truth seekers and believers in liberal values across the center left and right.

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Has anyone on hear actually taken the time to LISTEN to Harris’s statements about Israel?

Just tonight - Israeli people and American people are allies. Friends. She is not for cutting off arms shipments to Israel.

I know you want to think that she is in the pocket of the Lefties - if she was Biden wouldn’t have picked her.

You honestly think Trump is better for Israel or even likes Jews? He doesn’t care about Israel any more than he cares what Melania thinks about abortion- just elect me….

Netanyahu and Sinwar are perfectly implacable enemies. The more Palestinians the Israelis kill the more Sinwar’s position hardens and cred as a living martyr grows. The longer the Israeli hostages are held the more justified the repeated attacks. Bombs now just to make the rubble dance. Now dragging this into a showdown with Iran, certainly America and the free world’s enemy, no doubt about it.

Where does it end? I can’t see it from here but believing that Donald Trump will make a terrible situation better is lunacy.

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One of the few things done well by the Biden/Harris administration is the continued support of Israel. If Harris wins -- will she continue this or will she walk back on this statement as a tool to get elected and follow the far left side of her party which calls for divestment, de-arming/de-funding Israel and generally supporting a 1-state solution? Of note, the entire body of her political career (AG, senate, candidate) has been as left of center as you can be and still have relevance in US politics. Thus It is reasonable to be concerned that she will follow the latter. Also, while Trump is a nut, he certainly was far, far more stringent about Iran than either Obama or Biden/Harris -- the effects of this pressure are obvious; Iran is far more of an issue now.

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The Vice President is a simpleton who is equal measures of incompetence and ineffectiveness. She has no executive experience of note and no accomplishments save the boxes she successfully checked in her climb up the Democrat Party career ladder. Her sense of international relations is devoid of any understanding of our own national interests and the attendant needs of our allies. In short, she communicates weakness in all things she addresses. For that reason, she is dangerous to our security and the security of our allies.

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You wish, but not so. Just continue believing falsehoods. Negativity won’t ever win.

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If Trump had shown any semblance of foreign policy leadership that wasn’t completely driven by nepotism and/or self-aggrandizement, I might agree.

Even in her relative inexperience, she is a critical and pragmatic thinker who is not afraid to make a decision and explain why.

All he has to offer is 4 more years of chaos, ego, and self-dealing.

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The only lunacy here is the moral equivalency of equating Sinwar and Netanyahu and thinking Harris will be Israel’s savior.

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Netanyahu and Sinwar are two pre-historic predators locked in a fatal embrace.

The world sees it.

Ask yourself why, in the wake of a true atrocity committed by Hamas, Israel has lost the upper moral hand which they surely should have retained given what happened.

I absolutely believe Israel is an unbreakable ally of the US. We should all be disgusted and sickened that Iran, with its money men in Qatar and Dubai, has managed the seemingly impossible feat of turning a ultra religious regime that would sooner execute its entire LBGT population into one that is somehow the victim here. Drop any of these campus protestors into Iran for 5 minutes and see how long they last.

I am in no way at all equivocating Israel or Israelis with the likes of Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas.

I am saying that Netanyahu has played right into the propaganda war waged by those same actors, diminishing Israel’s support here at home and worldwide.

I still fail to see what Trump will do or not do that makes a positive difference here.

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Hamas horrifying butchers. U.S. pro-Hamas vastly worse. Clearly fighting words but we have lost our way since Branderberg and the idiotic soldier funeral cases.

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Isn’t there enough to go after in the news without going after Bari Weiss? How about trying to form a constructive recommendation or ask a question or state a genuine concern. So disappointing. Bari Weiss has started a movement and been courageous her expressing points of view that have not always been popular, what have you done lately for the cause?? Please share.

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Oct 8·edited Oct 8

We don’t learn. Islamist terrorists brought us 9/11. Now they brought Israel 10/7.

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"We expected Hamas to try to kill Jews. We didn’t expect Americans to celebrate when they did." We also expected the IDF to kill civilians in their typical ferocious, vengeful manner, as they are trained, ordered, and exalted to do. We didn't expect Gaza to become the single most dangerous place in the world to be a child. We didn't expect tens of thousands of children and babies to be murdered, ripped apart, mutilated, burned alive, left without limbs, parents, food, medicine, water or hope. What Hamas did on Oct 7th is a brutal crime. What has happened since is clearly, demonstrably, grotesquely, an ongoing genocide. It's not even debatable any longer. The innocents are paying the price for the wicked. To deny it is willful ignorance. It's cruelty of the first order. It is an unforgivable sin.

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Bari Weiss and the other contributors write a series of thoughtful, sophisticated analyses (look at Ferguson's recent piece, for instance) and all you can offer is a tired expression of moral equivalence. Suffice it to say, that when a terrorist organization spends billions of dollars on military hardware rather than infrastructure to support its peoples' social and economic development, and then attacks a sovereign state across undisputed national borders, deploying the most heinous tactics of rape, disfigurement, and indiscriminate killing of children, women (civilians), all while hiding amongst and beneath their own citizens, the response is going to necessarily result in some very bad outcomes for those who started it.

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The innocents are paying the price for the wicked HAMAS, who cares nothing for its own people, only for its soulless, evil goal to eliminate the Jewish people. To deny or ignore THAT is willful ignorance.

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