The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Perfidious Unreality of the “New Normal” Kit Knightly So, what’s with all the fake crying? Rachel Maddow pretended to cry about  “kids in cages” . Matt Hancock pretended to cry about  Covid vaccines . Sarah Sidner pretended to cry  over covid . Anderson Cooper  pretended to cry about Israel , so did  John Kirby .  Van Jones  pretended to cry after Biden “won” the 2020 “election”.  Adam Schiff  and  Adam Kinzinger  both pretended to cry about January 6th. Don Lemon  pretends to cry  about  pretty much everything . They all do it, and they’re all so  bad  at it. And speaking of  pretending badly , remember those early photos of people in China lying in the street, straight as planks, supposedly killed by “Covid”? As if this scary new virus just snuffs you out mid-step to topple backwards flat on the ground in a perfect silent movie pratfall. And it’s not just “Covid”. During the run-up to the 2020 election “pretending badly” was happening everywhere. We were told, over and over aga

  Memory & Indictment: Today’s Jewish Taliban, Not the Israel I Grew Up in  by  Ilana Mercer Jewish Supremacism, like American Exceptionalism, breeds barbarism Israel has rendered Gaza a “ moonscape in war ,” uninhabitable for years to come, reduced to rubble by “the most intense air campaigns  in the modern record .” Not only is Israel murdering tens of thousands of Gaza’s civilians — 22,313 Palestinians to date (via  Ha’aretz  Israel News, Wednesday, January 3); an average of  200 to 300 souls a day  — but it has gone and done a Taliban on the Gaza strip’s heritage sites, some dating back to antiquity. Even the  Wall Street Journal,  in support of Israel’s “operation,” is now hip to the wanton death and destruction.  Writes  its Middle East correspondent: By mid-December, Israel had dropped 29,000 bombs, munitions and shells on the strip. Nearly 70% of Gaza’s 439,000 homes and about half of its buildings have been damaged or destroyed. The bombing has damaged [and destroyed]  Byz