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HANSON: Hating Israel fatigue

Hating Israel while championing Hamas and its thousands of terrorist killers is a referendum not on Israel and its supporters, but a window into the mind of a sick, sick West -- and an even sicker Middle East.

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Hamas or Israeli values?

HANSON: Hating Israel fatigue Back to video

Israel dominates the daily news in this 2026 midterm election year — almost always in a boring, fatiguing, negative light. Tens of thousands of innocents may be slaughtered, ethnically cleansed, butchered, and tortured by the world’s dictators, yet an overwhelming and obsessive abhorrence is reserved for tiny, democratic Israel.

Such perverse asymmetry is strange, since, at least privately, most Americans would concede that of the 18 Middle Eastern nations, only Israel is a genuine consensual democracy.

As far as tolerance goes, in the entire region, only in Israel is it legal to criticize political or religious figures. Only there can one choose to adopt an openly gay or trans lifestyle. Only there can an apostate renounce one’s religion or urge others to do the same. And only there can Christians establish a new church almost anywhere they choose.

Some of Israel’s fiercest feminist critics who wear miniskirts and halter tops, some of its most severe gay opponents, and some of its more virulent trans adversaries would in all likelihood be summarily arrested in most Middle Eastern countries if they dared to speak, act, or wear clothes as they do in the West — except, of course, in democratic and free Israel.

In terms of protest, scream publicly in Tel Aviv, “I no longer believe in the Jewish faith, and I hate the current government of Israel” — and there is little chance of being arrested.

Chant the same publicly in any Muslim country in the Middle East — “I no longer believe in Islam, and I hate our current government” — and the loud critic would be either jailed or beaten by a street mob or worse.

On the left — whether that is defined as the ossifying Democratic Party or the ascendant Democratic Socialists of America, or both — it is now a general rule that no candidate can win a primary election in a blue state if the candidate is on record supporting Israel.

In practice, no Jewish American can now be nominated on any national Democratic Party ticket.

Once extreme but now mainstream Democratic candidates, officeholders, and influencers, from Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-MI, and Ilhan Omar, D-MN, to New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani and podcaster Hasan Piker, call for the virtual end of Israel as we currently know it. Most Democrat candidates prefer to be seen on the stump with the antisemitic, America-trashing Piker rather than with their own Senate Minority Leader, Senator Chuck Schumer.

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