Caving to their far-left activist base will not endear voters during the upcoming midterm elections

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Even the most ardent Hamas-haters would find it hard to debate that the suffering in Gaza has been extreme during Israel’s two-year war to dismantle the murderous terror organization. But the conflict’s impact on the American people is far more difficult to determine.

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We hear the loudest voices as they maraud across city centres and college campuses chanting for an end to Zionism. Few, however, speak for America’s great masses, who appear mostly indifferent to the carnage and its resulting antisemitic tide.

But the “Palestine” issue — particularly charges of Israeli “genocide” — has managed to maintain outsized proportions, which are now growing larger as America enters the midterm elections season.

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Last week, on a panel in Washington, D.C., moderated by the stridently anti-Zionist journalist Mehdi Hasan,........

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