Privileged ingrates like Zohran Mamdani need to quit the genocide hypocrisy

On Oct.7, 2023, Hamas killers slaughtered 1,200 people, more than two-thirds of them civilians, inside Israel.For the ensuing three weeks, they refused Israel’s demands to turn over the 251 hostages and to surrender the architects of the massacre.No matter — within a day of the attacks, when Hamas gunmen were still fighting Israeli troops on Israeli soil, the American left was already screaming “genocide!”They did not mean Hamas’ intended genocide of Jews, a foretaste of which was seen when it launched a surprise invasion force of more than 4,000 terrorists some 15 miles into Israel.The killers were accompanied by some 2,000 “innocent” Gazan “civilians.”All were bent on looting, murder, rape, torture and hostage-taking of the defenseless.Nor did the “genocide” chorus refer to the more than 13,000 rockets, missiles and drones launched from Gaza after Oct.

7 that predominantly targeted Israeli civilian neighborhoods.What was most surreal about the charges of “genocide” against Israel — along with all the other slurs of “settler-colonialism,” “apartheid,” “occupation,” “war crimes” — was that they so often came from elite first- and second-generation Middle Eastern immigrants to America.Yet these prominent American accusers have remained silent about whether their lurid charges might far better reflect the sordid histories of their own homelands.Take the Turkish-American anchor baby Hasan Piker, the millionaire podcaster who has dual citizenship and grew up in Turkey.Piker has gained celebrity as the socialist heartthrob who is the brain of the new democratic socialist/Islamist alliance.Besides his antisemitic rants, he has declared that “America deserved 9/11” and “Oh God, I f–king hate America so much.”Yet the outspoken Piker has only once in passing mentioned Turkey’s 1974 invasion of Cyprus, and its half-century-long occupation of nearly 40% of it.Nor did Piker, who damns the creation of Israel in 1948, eve...