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Anti-Israel Protesters Make Netanyahu's Point
(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered an impressive speech to Congress on Wednesday, making the case for Israel's just war and laying out a reasonable plan for what's next. At the same time, protesters ran wild in Washington, breaking the law with impunity while trumpeting their hatred for America, Israel and Jews. On Tuesday, anti-Israel activists targeted Mr. Netanyahu's hotel. The Palestinian Youth Movement wrote on Instagram, "Mealworms and maggots...were left on their banquet tables, and crickets were released on multiple floors of the hotel." Donations to the charity that controls this group remain tax-deductible. On Wednesday, a mob outside Union Station tore down U.S. flags and burned one to chants of "Allahu akbar." In their place, they sent up the flag of the Palestine Liberation Organization. An outnumbered police officer was dragged and thrown to the ground. The mob defaced federal property, writing slogans such as "Hamas is comin" on the Christopher Columbus monument and "Qassam, Qassam, make us proud," cheering Hamas's military wing, on the American Legion's Freedom Bell. The obscene acts underscored Mr. Netanyahu's point that "many anti-Israel protesters choose to stand with evil. They stand with Hamas." Not all pro-Palestinian protesters are this despicable, but most of the anti-Israel movement despises America.