Ben Cohen

Several million people around the world have participated in pro-Hamas demonstrations since the Islamist organization’s atrocities in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Nearly every major city has been the location of one or more of these “From the river to the sea” spectacles.

There can be no doubt: The cause of “Palestine” has seized the world’s imagination with an intensity that has surpassed other major conflicts in recent memory, like Vietnam or Iraq. Palestine is a cause with which most of them have no direct connection — for example, through family members, friends and work colleagues, or because their own country’s troops are on the ground. Still, in downtown neighborhoods from Los Angeles to London, from Milan to Dhaka, from Cape Town to Kuala Lumpur and from Toronto to

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