Open Season for Haters of Israel

For John, BLUF:  I am disgusted by the Anti-Semitism I am seeing across the Fruited Plain.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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NYC public defender Victoria Ruiz backs Hamas, like all other kidnap poster vandals

From The New York Poat, by the Post Editorial Board, 7 November 2023, 11:25 a.m. ET.

Here is the lede plus five:

What are the consequences for a New York City public defender caught suppressing the First Amendment rights of New York’s citizens?

Nothing — at least when the speech being suppressed is pro-Israel.

Victoria Ruiz was caught on camera ripping down a poster of a kidnap victim from Hamas’ barbaric Oct. 7 attacks.

Despite this effort to interfere with legally protected speech, her employer, New York County Defender Services — which holds a rich contract with the city — decided she gets to keep her job after what’s clearly a total whitewash of an internal review.

The message could not be any clearer.

For whole swaths of the city’s public workers, from CUNY to the courts, it’s open season not only [on] for supporters of Israel but the helpless victims of Hamas.

I think the editor of the Editorial Board has a typo in the last quoted paragraph, which I have tried to correct.

That a public and responsible agent of the Government would be ripping down posters of victims kidnapped by Hamas is deplorable.  That it would be someone whoo is supposed to be a public defender makes it so much worse.  This is not about IDF soldiers.  This is about innocent civilians kidnapped as part of a brilliant Hamas terrorist attack.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff