The recent conflict between Israel and Islamic Jihad has once again exposed the unwillingness of left-leaning groups and publications to allow facts to get in the way of their deep animus toward Israel. These critics ignored the actions of Islamic Jihad in the West Bank – actions that included ambushing of settlers, thus forcing an Israeli military response in Jenin that led to the Gaza conflict. Leftists also tried to ignore the large share of civilian Gaza deaths caused by errant Islamic Jihad missiles. Instead, the left immediately focused on the death of a 5-year-old girl during Israel’s lethal attack on the Islamic Jihad military commander in Gaza, with some characterizing Israel as conducting a “massacre.”
