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A Masked Mob Outside a Lawmaker's Home
(Wall Street Journal) Jillian Lederman - Anti-Israel protesters marked a year since Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre by setting up camp Sunday outside Rep. Greg Landsman's Cincinnati home, in what the Ohio Democrat calls "an attempt to intimidate my Jewish family." For two days, the Landsmans needed a police escort to enter or leave the house. The protesters wore all black, and their faces were hidden beneath kaffiyehs or black masks. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Ku Klux Klan members covered their faces as they burned crosses and engaged in acts of intimidation and violence. Anti-Israel demonstrators aren't covering their faces for their health, but to intimidate the targets of their protests and to escape accountability for their actions. As in the days of the Klan, those who wear masks seek not to express their views but to dominate others. Members of the mob outside Mr. Landsman's house have joined America's long history of people who hide their faces in the name of bigotry and intimidation.