{"id":1199,"date":"2023-10-11T04:44:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T04:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/when-people-tell-you-who-they-are-believe-them\/"},"modified":"2023-10-11T04:44:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T04:44:43","slug":"when-people-tell-you-who-they-are-believe-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/when-people-tell-you-who-they-are-believe-them\/","title":{"rendered":"When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thefp.com\/p\/when-people-tell-you-who-they-are\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Bari Weiss<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p data-substack-content=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AustralianJA\/status\/1711501583295680694\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a>&#0160;you can watch people gathered at the Sydney Opera House cheering \u201cgas the Jews\u201d and \u201cdeath to the Jews.\u201d People are rejoicing in the slaughter on the streets of&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/10\/08\/israel-hamas-war-security-police-jewish\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Berlin<\/a>&#0160;and&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-london-67040611\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">London<\/a>&#0160;and&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/norlowsky\/status\/1711478419089764804?s=20\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto<\/a>&#0160;and&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/jewishjournal.com\/israel\/363658\/pro-palestinian-crowd-in-new-york-celebrates-hamas-attack-on-israel\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York<\/a>. (Scroll down to read our&#0160;<em>Free Press&#0160;<\/em>dispatch on the celebrations in Manhattan.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-substack-content=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">At our most prestigious universities&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yascha_Mounk\/status\/1711535614296744175\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">there is silence<\/a>&#0160;from administrations that leapt to speak out on George Floyd\u2019s killing and on the war in Ukraine. Meantime, the social justice crowd offers explanations for the massacre\u2014a massacre that, in part, targeted a group of progressive Israelis at a music festival. Terrorists came to that festival on paragliders carrying machine guns to start their slaughter. They&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/israel-music-festival-massacre-eyewitness-account\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raped women<\/a>&#0160;there next to the dead bodies of their friends.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bari Weiss: Here&#0160;you can watch people gathered at the Sydney Opera House cheering \u201cgas the Jews\u201d and \u201cdeath to the Jews.\u201d People are rejoicing in the slaughter on the streets of&#0160;Berlin&#0160;and&#0160;London&#0160;and&#0160;Toronto&#0160;and&#0160;New York. (Scroll down to read our&#0160;Free Press&#0160;dispatch on the celebrations in Manhattan.) At our most prestigious universities&#0160;there is silence&#0160;from administrations that leapt to speak &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/when-people-tell-you-who-they-are-believe-them\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When People Tell You Who They Are, Believe Them&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,119,375,447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west","category-islamism","category-terrorism","category-threat-assessment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}