Anonymous Cowards

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I am writing this article on behalf of 11,000,000 residents of Gaza who have chosen to take a brave stance against the catastrophic leadership of Hamas.  They have asked me to petition the US Congress on their behalf, urging support for Israel until Hamas is utterly defeated and the hostages returned.

They have asked me to withhold their names for fear of retribution.

What’s that you say?  There are fewer than 2,100,000 residents in Gaza?

Oh.

Nevertheless . . .

On July 17, 2024, something that identifies itself as the Congressional Progressive Staff Association and, purportedly, 230 anonymous House and Senate employees across 122 different Democratic and Republican congressional offices, sent a letter urging members of Congress to protest or boycott the speech that Congressional leadership invited Benjamin Netanyahu to make before a joint session of Congress.

The letter is full of incendiary rhetoric and reeks of bias and deception (“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by waging war against the people of Gaza.” [sic]).  The letter mentions “civilians held captive by Hamas,” but does not mention the hostage-taking, brutal torture, programmatic rape, or ongoing bombardment of civilians by Hamas and its allies, all of which constitute war crimes.  Of course not.  To these unenlightened, self-righteous hypocrites, there is only one culprit–the democratically elected prime minister of the only Jewish State in the world, leading his people in a defensive war against a genocidal enemy.

The letter is offensive and wrong, and easily refuted and exposed as narrow-minded and disingenuous.  But there is no need to respond to the imbecility of the letter, because it lacks any substance and any credibility.  Its very nature renders it absurd as an instrument of persuasion.

It is anonymous.

Because the purported signatories are anonymous, we do not even have any way of  knowing whether any of these employees actually exist and we have no way of knowing exactly how many of them there are.  Maybe 229?  Maybe 11?  Maybe the febrile imagination of a junior intern in Chuck Schumer’s office?  Maybe a fact-checker for AOC?  The person who advises Jamaal Bowman on fire safety?  Jerry Nadler’s fashion consultant?  Some of the folks who drafted the statements regarding how sharp Joe Biden was behind closed doors?

All we actually know about them is that they include at least one ignorant person with access to a computer.  Why should we attend a single word they purport to say?

And even if the 230 sanctimonious, self-appointed guardians of Congressional virtue actually exist, what does their anonymity tell us about them, as they urge others to take the side of the terrorists?

They are cowards.  Children of a Twitter (“X”) generation, they cower in anonymity while spouting artificially brave platitudes.  Like their mask-wearing comrades in the campus tentifadas, they seek, and think that they merit, political power and influence while eschewing all risk.  These poltroons have temerity only in craven anonymity, hiding in shadows, lurking in ignorance, shouting abuse while they retreat into ignominy.  Masked, anonymous cowards. The license they give themselves to be offensive and hostile, without assuming a shred of responsibility, reveals the utter emptiness of their kind and their cause.

Why would anyone pay attention to a word they say?  They won’t even associate their own names and reputations to their position.  Of what are they afraid?  Of what are they ashamed?

Who are they?

Cowards, urging their employers to stay away from someone for fear that they might hear the truth. 

Any member of Congress who employs any of them should be ashamed, and any member of Congress who actually listens to them is worthy only of our contempt.