(Guardian-UK) Jo-Ann Mort - On June 10, protesters unfurled a banner in Union Square in Manhattan that read "Long Live October 7th" - long live a day of death, destruction, rage and abduction aimed almost solely at civilians, including numerous women and children and people in their 70s and 80s who were burned alive in their kibbutz homes. The demonstrations that day at the Nova exhibit on Wall Street, the subway system, and some museums were orchestrated by a rejectionist Islamic fundamentalist movement that stands against every tenet of American progressivism. The pronounced antisemitism in these protests is a profoundly unsettling phenomenon. If these voices are the ones on the frontline, it is not only hard to see this ending well, but difficult to imagine them delivering a ceasefire or state to the Palestinian people.
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