Bibi's Useful Idiots

Progressive Antics Could Make Puppies And Ice Cream Unpopular

I had not considered that protestors might descend on Washington, D.C., to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech before Congress last week. With all the other things (*gestures widely*) going on, the entire speech slipped my mind. I also didn’t see much about it on social media. In previous “days of action” surrounding the War in Gaza, promotions for protests were plastered all over my feeds. This time, though, not much.

Nevertheless, I wasn’t surprised when protestors showed up. Nor was I surprised when they made a spectacle out of themselves to the extent that required condemnation from practically everyone, including Vice President Kamala Harris, on the third day of her presidential campaign.

While Bibi spoke to Congress, protests defaced a replica of the Liberty Bell and several statues between Washington’s Union Station, where they gathered, and the U.S. Capitol. Most shockingly, they tore down the American flags on the three flag poles in the plaza outside the station, burned the flags, and then hoisted Palestinian flags in their place. The Right pounced on the protestors, trying to tie them to Harris and the entire left-liberal coalition, hoping to once again get some mileage out of the “Liberals hate America” message that has served them well in the past. Democrats across the board slammed the protests, leading many online leftists to cry foul.

The main complaint from those who support the Pro-Palestinian movement and last week’s protests is that people were too focused on the protestors’ vandalism and not on the cause they are trying to call attention to.

“If you care more about the vandalized stuff than Palestinian lives, then you’re a terrible person,” they say, believing, I suppose, that it will convince people to rethink their anger over the burning flags and vandalized monuments and refocus on Palestinians who have been killed in the ongoing war.

Take it from someone who tried this in his activist youth: It won’t.