When a US citizen, just 19, was taken captive by a fascist militia, what did America’s progressives do? They cosplayed as his captors. They wrapped their faces in the keffiyeh in gleeful mimicry of the militants who seized their compatriot. They cheered the jailers of their fellow citizen. ‘Glory to our martyrs’, some cried, ‘martyrs’ meaning the radical Islamists who had dragged their teenage countryman into a hellish lair and kept him there for 583 days.
Beyond these Hamas-loving agitators, even milder ‘progressive’ voices will have helped to make Alexander’s life in captivity harder
The release of Edan Alexander, the last living American hostage in Gaza, is cause for celebration. He was born in Tel Aviv and raised in New Jersey. He was just 19 when he was seized during Hamas’s pogrom of 7 October 2023. He’d been patrolling the Israel-Gaza border as part of an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) unit. According to freed hostages, he was held in the grimmest of conditions, deep in one of Hamas’s dank tunnels.
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