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In London, as the the streets were convulsed by anti-Israel hate marches, a non-Jewish taxi driver eyed his Jewish passenger in his rearview mirror and said, “We’re all with you, you know.” To which the passenger replied, “Thank you; but I wish I could believe that.” The taxi driver stopped his cab, twisted around, and told the passenger, “We are all with you. You’ve got to believe it”

It’s why people tore down the publicly displayed posters of the Israeli babies and the children, women, and men who were kidnapped into Gaza after the October 7 attack. It’s why Westerners accuse Israelis of being Nazis, to diminish the unique evil of the Nazis and thus wipe out the West’s own guilt over being accessories to the Holocaust.