All Quiet on the Leftist Front

Are you sure you're on the "right side of history?"

Kfir (left) and Ariel (right) Bibas

My social media has been very quiet for the last few days.

Did it just become unfashionable to put a watermelon wedge emoji in your bio? Chant “from the river to the sea?” Hang around college campuses accosting Jewish students? It must have, because I’m convinced that for many of the suddenly silent people I follow, fashion is the only thing guiding the needle on their moral compass, if they could be said to have one at all.

Why was antisemitism ever fashionable, in the United States, no less?

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

-Aldous Huxley