Remember when Ilhan Omar described September 11, 2001 as “some people did something”? (Prompting the great New York Post cover response reprinted below.)

The post-October 7, 2023 progressive left has done Omar one better. In a new statement, “Writers in Solidarity with Palestine” that has so far drawn 1,700 signatures from academics and writers, describes the events of that days as follows:

Of the many events on Saturday, October 7th, . . . the resistance bulldozed part of the fence around Gaza and some Gazans set foot outside the boundaries of their besiegement for a moment.

There follows the usual claptrap about how Israel is a “settler colonial project,” “genocide,” and support for armed resistance.

Leor Sapir of the Manhattan Institute has one of the better responses:

Meanwhile, anyone remember how Ilya Shapiro was suspended by Georgetown Law School because he criticized Ketanji Brown-Jackson as an affirmative action hire? OMG—students were upset and felt unsafe!

Check out the open threat against Jews made by a UC Davis faculty member:

So far no response from the administration at UC Davis, though her faculty page has been taken down. Question: How did she get hired in the first place? Her (I assume?) academic speciality is “the interplay between sound, race, gender, and embodiment.” Must be lots of demand for that from students.

I’ll look forward to the Post‘s treatment of the left’s bottomless pit of nihilism and pro-terrorism.