It Was Never About the Victims

In December 2019, there was a series of violent attacks on visibly Orthodox Jews in New York City during Hanukkah. After the muted reactions in the media: “possibly antisemitic attacks” (The Guardian); and the man who attacked worshippers in a Rabbi’s home with a machete had “no history of antisemitism” (The New York Times), I realized something about the progressive left — which claims to care about victims.