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‘Privileged ingrates’ like Zohran Mamdani need to quit the genocide hypocrisy

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On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas killers slaughtered 1,200 people, more than two-thirds of them civilians, inside Israel.

For the ensuing three weeks, they refused Israel’s demands to turn over the 251 hostages and to surrender the architects of the massacre.

No matter — within a day of the attacks, when Hamas gunmen were still fighting Israeli troops on Israeli soil, the American left was already screaming “genocide!”

They did not mean Hamas’ intended genocide of Jews, a foretaste of which was seen when it launched a surprise invasion force of more than 4,000 terrorists some 15 miles into Israel.

The killers were accompanied by some 2,000 “innocent” Gazan “civilians.”

All were bent on looting, murder, rape, torture and hostage-taking of the defenseless.

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Nor did the “genocide” chorus refer to the more than 13,000 rockets, missiles and drones launched from Gaza after Oct. 7 that predominantly targeted Israeli civilian neighborhoods.

What was most surreal about the charges of “genocide” against Israel — along with all the other slurs of “settler-colonialism,” “apartheid,” “occupation,” “war crimes” — was that they so often came from elite first- and........

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