RYAN MAURO: The Anti-Israel Left Now Wants To Target Cops

If you thought the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protesters of 2023 were only ever going to complain about the actions of a foreign government, you’ll be in for a rude shock. Far from backing down, two new studies by the Capital Research Center (CRC) show that the unsavory elements behind the pro-Hamas movement are now rebranding into a radical, violent, anti-police movement. Their goal: to use racial tension and outrage over police misconduct to legitimize defunding, abolishing, and outright killing the police.

CRC’s most recent study, When Charities Betray America: How “Pro-Palestinian” Protest Groups Promote Anti-Americanism, found that 500 of the most significant anti-Israel organizations and activists in the U.S have increased their anti-police and anti-American rhetoric cumulatively by 186% in the 15 months before and after the Hamas-led terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023. The word “pig” alone has increased inusage by 1,088%. The pro-terrorism non-profit U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, which has 329 groups listed in its network, even suggests using protest signs that read, “ABOLISH THE POLICE AND FREE PALESTINE.” That couldn’t be any clearer.

This, unfortunately, is not new. An earlier CRC study, Marching Towards Violence: The Domestic Anti-Israeli Protest Movement, identified over 150 pro-terrorism and terror-linked organizations, including actual domestic terrorist groups and many non-profits, who frequently (albeit indirectly) justified terrorist attacks on police officers by praising October 7 perpetrators like Hamas and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine for attacking Israeli military and police personnel and then equating American law enforcement with the Israelis. They assert that the Israeli and U.S. authorities are jointly committing a “genocide” of minorities, each warranting a similar response.