Three years after Oct. 7, the haters are still celebrating terror

It’s nightmarishly grotesque, and horribly revealing, that crowds will gather in New York and other cities on the third anniversary of the Oct.7 atrocities to celebrate the mass slaughter of Israelis by the “Islamic Resistance Movement,” a k a Hamas.Not to protest Israel’s actions before, during or since the war those attacks began, but to cheer the 6,000 or so who invaded the Jewish state to kill, rape and kidnap civilian kibbutzim and dance-festival ravers — and filmed it all, instantly sharing it with their victims’ families and the world.Why else gather on this day, the high mark for the terrorists and their cause?The organizers, including the “youth section” of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s beloved Democratic Socialists of America, say it’s because the date “marks three years since resistance against imperialism changed the fate of our world forever.”Again, the “resistance” that day was purely a matter of terrorizing innocents, and Hamas’ least-shameful actions since amount to nothing but losing to the Israeli forces that moved into Gaza to recover the hostages and smash the terror infrastructure.The only imperialism to be set back here is the one run out of Tehran, whose pawns in Gaza and Lebanon have been eviscerated and its catspaw in Syria removed entirely.But the rally-goers mourn all that; it’s the Jew-killing they dig on.
In a sane city these death cultists would face condemnation from even center-left Democrats, the ones who used to retain a shred of principle and pretense of respectability.But they flushed away those last scraps of decency as the party’s hard left won some primaries: When you stand for nothing except holding power, you’re obliged to bow to the barbarians you need to keep it.So the Democrats — and the global left — have embraced oblivious sanctimony, insisting against all evidence that Israel’s just war against Hamas is a “genocide.”They just plug their ears rather than hear the debunking of all t...