Rep. Ritchie Torres sees the rot Mehdi Hasan represents — why don’t other Dems?

Prominent Jew-hating writer Mehdi Hasan was rarin’ to blasted the victims of the Amsterdam shot pogrom — but Bronx Dem Rep. Ritchie Torres, who’s bucked his party’s vile stance connected Israel from the start, has changeable him down. 

Hasan connected X openly said that the Jews chased done the streets and assaulted aft a shot lucifer were blameworthy of “provoking” the monolithic surge of organized corporate unit due to the fact that (he claims) a fewer fans of visiting squad Maccabi acted up first. 

This is simply a elemental lie: WhatsApp messages person surfaced from the time before the game, calling for a “Jew hunt” and describing Maccabi fans arsenic “cancer dogs.”

It’s besides a plea to sympathize with antisemitic thugs.

And Torres bravely leaped into the fray. 

He lambasted Hasan connected Instagram: “Mehdi Hasan is justifying a pogrom against Jews successful Amsterdam. Yet marque nary mistake: mainstream media volition proceed platforming Hasan due to the fact that America nary longer treats antisemitism arsenic a motivation enactment that should ne'er beryllium crossed.”

Torres is close that Hasan’s a pogrom-justifier.

Hasan’s clumsy efforts to backpedal from his archetypal stance beryllium it. 

The rep is close arsenic good astir the information that antisemitism is nary longer treated successful this state arsenic forbidden and that Hasan volition look nary existent consequences. 

That’s acknowledgment to decades-long efforts by extremist leftists to normalize Jew hatred arsenic a signifier of “resistance” and “anti-imperialism.”

And to a Democratic Party that played footsie with those aforesaid radicals and past offered them a afloat governmental embrace.

To accidental thing of the carnivore hug Barack Obama and Joe Biden offered Iran. 

Since Oct. 7, the cadres of the near nary longer fuss to fell their hate, openly praising Hamas and utilizing Goebbels-like rhetoric successful which lone Jews tin ever beryllium guilty. 

Hasan salient among them. 

It would beryllium the easiest happening successful the satellite for mainstream journos and nationalist Democrats to beryllium Torres incorrect by rejecting Hasan and his co-ideologues. 

Don’t clasp your breath.