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May 27, 2025

How the American Left Descended into Anti-Semitic Murder

A wide swath of progressives would never kill in cold blood, but sympathize with the shooter’s motives.

In the brief manifesto the thirty-year-old Chicagoan circulated the day before he murdered Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim, he explains that he first wanted to kill Jews to express his anger at Israel in 2014, but felt that he wouldn’t have gotten sufficient sympathy. Kathleen Hayes provides a firsthand account of the leftist ideological cesspool that produced, and then encouraged and intensified, his way of thinking:

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