When Hatred Marches Proudly Through Our Cities

Can you imagine, after all the horror unleashed on October 7, 2023, someone holding up a sign wishing for more? On March 19, 2025, in the vibrant heart of San Francisco, outside the Israeli consulate, that’s exactly what happened. A sign proudly for all to see: “Israel deserves 10,000 Oct. 7ths.” It’s a gut punch to anyone who values life, decency, and the Jewish people’s right to exist. This isn’t some lone lunatic ranting on a street corner; it’s a symptom of a sickness spreading across Western cities like London, New York, and Berlin. Protests that claim to stand for Palestinian rights are morphing into grotesque celebrations of terrorism and platforms for raw antisemitism.

Picture this: crowds openly cheering for thousands more October 7ths, more butchery, more families torn apart, more innocent blood spilled, while the West stands by, hands in pockets, barely whispering a word. It’s a rising tide of hate we’ve let fester far too long.

The crowds aren’t just calling for freedom. They’re chanting for blood.

How did we let it come to this? How is it okay to root for murderers in the streets of free nations? The answer hits hard: we’ve lost our way. The West has let the most venomous voices scream loudest, and we’ve been too timid, or too indifferent, to call them out for what they are: cheerleaders for evil.

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Let’s be clear: October 7 wasn’t some noble “resistance.” It was a cold-blooded massacre, filmed and flaunted by Hamas with sick pride. Yet here we are, watching people march through our cities, demanding more of that nightmare, and too many just shrug. It’s antisemitism dolled up as activism, and it’s getting bolder by the day.

The media’s silence is deafening and shameful. If a sign at any other rally called for genocide against another group, it’d be plastered across every screen, debated for weeks, and condemned from every corner. But when it’s Jews and Israel under attack, the airwaves go quiet. A call for “10,000 Oct 7ths” isn’t a critique; it’s a death threat. It’s not progressive; it’s a relapse into humanity’s ugliest chapters.

This isn’t just about slapping wrists; it’s about ripping the mask off this hatred. Governments and journalists need to team up and turn a spotlight on these rallies, expose who’s pulling the strings, who’s funding them, who’s radicalizing the crowds. Hamas and its ilk have blood-stained fingerprints all over this mess.

Pass laws. Show faces. Prosecute incitement. Deport those abusing their guest privileges.

Too many of these terror fans hide at protests, masks on, cowardice in full bloom. Pass laws to make them show their faces; let’s see who’s brave enough to cheer for slaughter in broad daylight. Free speech is sacred, but it stops dead where calls to violence start. Police need to haul in anyone breaking hate crime or terror advocacy laws with no excuses and no free passes. And if they’re non-citizens, students on visas, temporary residents, caught waving Hamas flags or saluting its atrocities? Revoke their status and ship them out. They don’t get to exploit our liberties to peddle hate.

Israel stands as a beacon of resilience, a Jewish homeland forged through centuries of struggle, and it deserves our unwavering support against this evil. The Jewish people have endured enough, pogroms, exile, the Holocaust, and now this? No more. It’s time to unmask these monsters and prosecute them. For Israel, for the Jewish people, and for the sake of decency itself, the West needs to wake up and fight back.