To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Monday, March 24, 2025

Observercast

The Lesson For Liberals

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BY SUSAN ESTRICH There’s a painful lesson to be learned for liberals, especially liberal Jews, from the hopefully concluded war in Gaza. Most of my liberal friends desperately want to believe that the fact that Israel is subject to more criticism than almost any country in the world [including some very scary ones], that respected universities consider calls for boycotts, that student government slates [at UCLA] run and win on pledges not to accept travel […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.