We can safely say that this is a violent movement in search of a pretext.

I had the pleasure of joining Fox News Channel’s Jessica Tarlov on the “America’s Newsroom” panel earlier this morning, where we engaged in some speculation about the factors that motivated the assassin who shot and killed two people outside a diplomatic event at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

Jessica’s judicious points are well-taken. As I conceded, she’s right that there is and should not be a “transitive property” applied to discrete criminal acts allegedly committed by unique individuals. Complicity, however, is an altogether different matter.

“There is only one solution: intifada revolution.” “Globalize the intifada.” “By any means necessary.” These and other veiled threats that masquerade as protest slogans are hardly innocuous when evaluated alongside the violence, vandalism, and havoc so-called “pro-Palestinian” demonstrators meted out with metronomic regularity since October 8, 2023. For much of that time, that menacing movement was being courted by the Democratic establishment. It is, therefore, not hard to see how the deluded and impressionable sort might believe that, if they acted on the threats implicit in their sloganeering, they might be lauded by some of American society’s most influential figures.

Between the attacks on DNC headquarters, the firebombing of a governor’s home, and the slaughter of two young peace activists — to say nothing of the innumerable lesser crimes this movement has inspired — we can safely say that this is a violent movement in search of a pretext.

I don’t think Jessica would disagree with that, though we might differ on the extent to which the Democratic Party needs to repudiate its 2024 efforts to integrate these malcontents into their coalition and appropriate their manic zeal for themselves.

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