The Political Price of Anti-Israel Protests
null By Daniel HenningerDec. 6, 2023 4:24 pm ETWonder Land: Following the targeting of a Jewish-owned restaurant by 'Pro Palestine' protesters in Philadelphia, Democrats start to push back against public antisemitism. Images: AP/@THATJVG via Storyful Composite: Mark KellyIt has come to this. The president of the United States and the governor of Pennsylvania issued statements this week denouncing a protest outside a falafel restaurant in Philadelphia. Needless to say, the protesters were pro-Palestinian and the owner of the restaurant, Goldie, is Israel-born. The protesters’ chant was also predictable: “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide.”Set aside the fantastic moral conceit of “we”—this Philly mob—accusing a restaurant owner of genocide. Set aside the resonance of Kristallnacht in 1938, which Gov. Josh Shapiro noted. What’s clear is that the Democratic left’s anti-Israel (which is to say, anti-Jewish) outpourings have become reflexive—and a growing domestic
Dec. 6, 2023 4:24 pm ET
It has come to this. The president of the United States and the governor of Pennsylvania issued statements this week denouncing a protest outside a falafel restaurant in Philadelphia. Needless to say, the protesters were pro-Palestinian and the owner of the restaurant, Goldie, is Israel-born. The protesters’ chant was also predictable: “Goldie, Goldie, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide.”
Set aside the fantastic moral conceit of “we”—this Philly mob—accusing a restaurant owner of genocide. Set aside the resonance of Kristallnacht in 1938, which Gov. Josh Shapiro noted. What’s clear is that the Democratic left’s anti-Israel (which is to say, anti-Jewish) outpourings have become reflexive—and a growing domestic political problem for the party.
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Daniel Henninger's weekly column, “Wonder Land,” appears in The Wall Street Journal each Thursday.
Mr. Henninger was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in editorial writing in 1987 and 1996, and shared in the Journal's Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper's coverage of the attacks on September 11. In 2004, he won the Eric Breindel Journalism Award for his weekly column. He has won the Gerald Loeb Award for commentary, the Scripps Howard Foundation's Walker Stone Award for editorial writing and the American Society of Newspaper Editors' Distinguished Writing Award for editorial writing. He is a weekly panelist on the "Journal Editorial Report" on Fox News.
A native of Cleveland, Mr. Henninger is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Follow him @danhenninger.
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