Rantz: After activists normalized antisemitism, 2 innocent Jews were murdered in D.C.

If you’ve spent any time watching or reading the news over the last year and a half, you should have noticed the trend: antisemitism isn’t just back, it’s being mainstreamed—especially by the Radical Left, and, to some extent, the Radical Right. After last night’s shocking double murder of Israeli embassy staff in D.C., it’s time to stop pretending this is some isolated incident.

The rot starts in our cities, festering on our college campuses, is enabled—and, in some instances, cheered on—by Democratic politicians who’d rather blame Israel than call out the bigots in their own ranks.

What we’ve seen in Seattle, at the University of Washington, and across the country isn’t “pro-Palestinian activism.” It’s open, vicious antisemitism—complete with blood libels, celebration of terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, and the intimidation and outright assault of Jewish students and staff.

The murder of Jews was inevitable

I warned this would happen. I’ve spent months watching radicals occupy our campuses, chanting for a “global intifada,” spewing hate from the comfort of their tent encampments and, in the case of UW, rallying around monsters who slaughter Jewish civilians for sport. And now, after over a year of normalizing this filth, the violence has escalated exactly as predicted.

But if you ask too many media outlets, or listen to Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal—Seattle’s favorite Hamas apologist—these are just “peaceful protests.” They’re passionate students who are merely criticizing Israeli policy and fighting to end a “genocide.” Spare me.

The Seattle Times will give you a column downplaying Hamas’ terrorist attack against Israel so they can highlight the plight of Gazans while using statistics provided by Hamas. KING 5 runs glowing coverage of these rallies, amplifying businesses actively spreading Hamas propaganda, while claiming, “For decades, Palestinians have suffered under the Israeli Government.” Apparently, Hamas bears no responsibility. A KOMO reporter will whitewash the language at rallies, calling Hamas terrorists “freedom fighters.”

Whitewashing antisemitism

Meanwhile, local media either skips or glosses over any mention that the “From the River to the Sea” chants explicitly call for the destruction of Israel and the extermination of Jews. They call antisemites “pro-Palestinian.” They feature fringe voices supporting Hamas, while mostly pushing Jews aside unless they’re self-loathing and fall into the 1% that doesn’t believe in Israel’s right to exist.

Local media acts like these activists are the underdogs fighting “colonialism,” rather than privileged brats cosplaying as revolutionaries while peddling centuries-old hate.

While not all local media engage in this irresponsible journo-activism (Jeremy Harris at KOMO, for example, has been allowed to offer honest coverage, especially around the so-called “occupation” by antisemites at the UW), it represents the majority of the coverage as they try to give “both sides” equal space. The side calling for the death of Jews, while showing support for Hamas and endlessly demonizing Israel, is not worthy of anything more than scorn.

Let’s stop sugarcoating the hate

When you host “teach-ins” with “Free Gaza” banners but end up reading Hamas press releases out loud, you’re not interested in human rights—you’re legitimizing terror. When you let campus encampments run for days or weeks, you’re giving the green light for radicalization.

When Democratic politicians like Jayapal refuse to condemn this hate, or worse, dismisses the rape of Jewish women to justify attacks against Israel, they’re not neutral. They’re complicit.

These activists, along with their enablers in academia and the halls of Congress, don’t want peace. They want to see Israel wiped off the map, and they make that clear every time they cheer for Hamas or accuse Jews of “genocide.” It’s sick.

Where’s the impassioned support for Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim

We’re told not to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism. But I see the same faces who say “Death to Israel” pushing blood libels about Jews starving Gazan children. I see “Free Palestine” rallies where Hezbollah flags are waved and posters call for “global intifada”—and then I watch as Jewish homes and businesses are vandalized, and two innocent young Jews, Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, murdered in cold blood in D.C.

The line isn’t blurred; it’s been erased.

Will Lischinsky and Milgrim earn impassioned support from the likes of Jayapal, or are they too busy fighting to defend antisemitic grad students?

Will the Radical Left embrace the suspect Elias Rodriguez or will they turn him into a martyr, or fetishize him like they did with Luigi Mangione?

More violence is inevitable if we don’t condemn the movement

So what happens next? We’re already seeing it.

Jewish students are fleeing campus, faculty are threatened, and violence—like we just witnessed in D.C.—will only get worse. When you normalize hate, when you elevate the voices of bigots and terrorists under the guise of “social justice,” you end up with blood on your hands. What did you think would happen next? The antisemitic activists, locally and nationally, have already escalated their tactics. They told us they would.

And make no mistake, the blame isn’t just on the thugs who pull the trigger or smash the window. It’s on every politician who refuses to stand up, every media outlet that calls hate “activism,” and every university president who’s too cowardly to enforce their own policies.

I’ve been warning about this for months, and now we’re all living with the consequences. If Seattle, the University of Washington, and the Democratic Party don’t wake up and root out this antisemitic cancer, the violence will continue—and next time, it might be closer to home.

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