Actions taken this week by both the terrorist group Hamas in Gaza as well as the leftist terrorists in the United States has once again illustrated how little difference there is between these two groups.

The obvious reasons why killing the leaders
of Hamas and Hezbollah is a good thing.
Courtesy of Doug Ross.

In Gaza, Hamas responded to the public demonstrations against it by ordinary Gazans last week by torturing and killing one of the demonstration leaders.

Hamas operatives kidnapped, tortured and executed a 22-year-old Palestinian man who participated in last week’s wave of protests against the terror group, according to his family. Oday Nasser Al Rabay’s body was left in front of his family’s home over the weekend. On Saturday, many dozens were filmed participating in his funeral procession, shouting, “Hamas out!”

Hamas has reportedly been threatening Palestinians who participate in the protests against the terror group, but this appears to be the first time that anyone has been killed in connection to them.

Hamas, which is strongly supported by many politicians in the Democratic Party, has thus illustrated its unwavering intolerance of any opposition, an intolerance so strong that torture and murder is considered a viable option for maintaining power.

Driving that intolerance however is not simply a lust for power, but a hate that fuels Hamas’s every action. The members of Hamas hate all non-Muslims, especially Jews, and want to kill them all. Anyone that stands in the way of this goal thus earns death as well.

Hate allows for this kind of evil. It has to be fed somehow, and if murder is the food, than so be it.

What does this have to do with the American left? In the past few months leftists in America has shown themselves to be no different. They have cheered the brutal cold-blooded assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, because they hate big pharmaceutical companies. The accused murderer, Luigi Mangione, is now a leftist hero cheered enthusiastically by late night comedians and their audiences.

That sick adulation of Manguione by those on the left likely encouraged a similar murder this week in California, where Narciso Gallardo Fernandez entered a pharmacy and shot a pharmacy worker, telling police after his arrest he did it because he “hates big pharmacies.” If Manguione can become a hero for killing a pharmaceutical CEO, Fernandez probably thought doing the same to an innocent guy in a pharmacy would do the same for him. After all, the left keeps telling us that big pharmacies are bad, and thus we should have the right to kill those who work for them, if we want to!

This urge to commit violence against those the left hates has now spread to a campaign to vandalize and destroy privately owned Tesla cars and dealerships, because the left now hates Elon Musk for working with Donald Trump (who by the way they hate also). The idiocy of this is hard to fathom, since Tesla cars have cameras everywhere, and almost every Tesla vandal is being quickly captured and prosecuted. And yet, the vandalism continues.

And of course, we have our bankrupt academia, dominated and controlled entirely by the left after it began an insidious campaign decades ago to blacklist conservatives from any teaching jobs, so that now almost everyone who teaches at American universities are died-in-the-wool communists.

In the past ten years that campaign has moved from getting rid of conservative teachers to silencing any opposition by any students. The violent demonstrations in the past year supporting Hamas — occupying campuses illegally and harassing Jewish students merely because they are Jewish — has simply been part of the same campaign that for years has silenced any conservative speakers on American campuses, often violently.

The instruction manual of the left

José Felipe Alvergue, the Chair of the English Department at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire this week decided that censorship campaign has not been effective enough at his college. He apparently hated the fact that a student Republican club had a table on campus campaigning for the Republican running for that state’s Supreme Court, and decided he had the right to simply pick up the table and overturn it. He has been suspended, with pay. He should be fired instantly.

Alverque is however merely another symptom of the mad hatred that now permeates the left and supporters of the American Democratic Party. Facts or rational ideas no longer matter. They hate Trump. They hate Musk. They hate Republicans. And if you oppose their allies, such as Hamas, they hate you too.

Hate is not a good foundation for healthy policy. Nonetheless, it is a strong emotion, and if you can get enough people consumed by it you can often take power. It appears the American left has decided that this is their best route from the political wilderness.

For everyone’s sake — including the left — we must pray they are wrong. The frightening thing is that history tells us they might be right.