Lawsuit against FDA over SSRI warning label is thrown out

 

A lawsuit against the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been dismissed, highlighting the difficulty of holding federal agencies accountable.

The case focused on the FDA’s failure to update antidepressant warning labels to alert patients and doctors about Post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD), a serious condition that can persist long after stopping the medication.

Despite legal action, the court ruled that the plaintiff lacked “standing,” hence, they were not entitled to bring a case against the FDA in federal court.

The lawsuit

In 2018, Dr. Antonei Csoka, a researcher and advisor to the PSSD Network, joined medical experts in filing a citizen petition urging the FDA to update SSRI drug labels.

The agency is required by law to respond within 180 days, but six years later, it still hasn’t acted.

Assoc Prof Antonei Csoka, Dept of Anatomy, Howard University College of Medicine

Subsequently, Public Citizen, a consumer advocacy group representing Dr. Csoka, sued the FDA in May 2024, arguing that the agency’s inaction was unlawful and posed a risk to public health.

Attorney Michael Kirkpatrick, who led the case, stated, “The FDA needs to act in a timely way to inform the public about the risks associated with these drugs. The potential for life-long harm is too serious to ignore.”

The lawsuit mirrored previous cases where Public Citizen successfully sued the FDA over delayed drug warnings, such as the 2021 case involving finasteride, a hair-loss drug linked to suicidal behaviour.

Dr. Csoka had hoped for a similar result in this case, but the court saw things differently.

Court ruled "lack of standing"

On 31 March, 2025, the court dismissed the case, stating that the plaintiff lacked "standing," meaning they couldn’t show a direct, personal injury resulting from the FDA’s delay.

The judge noted:

“The mere failure of an agency to act within a prescribed time frame does not automatically confer standing upon a petitioner… Because plaintiff has not suffered an injury in fact, he lacks standing to bring this action.”

Instead, the judge viewed the case as a "procedural" issue, where frustration over government inaction wasn’t enough to justify legal action.

Dr. Csoka expressed disappointment at the ruling.

“The FDA has taken far too long to act, but the judge ruled that I didn’t show the delay caused me a concrete, specific injury, and therefore I 'lacked standing.' It’s just a legal technicality,” he said.

He added, “In the eyes of the law, unless you can show a concrete personal harm, and that a court decision would clearly fix that harm, you don't have 'standing,' even if you're absolutely correct on the scientific facts or principles.”

“I personally find this ridiculous, but it is the reality,” remarked Dr. Csoka.

The ruling followed a precedent from the 2021 case Campaign Legal Center v. Federal Election Commission, which also rejected a lawsuit over agency inaction.

The court determined that while the FDA had failed to meet its legal deadlines, the delay didn’t cause the specific harm required to justify a lawsuit.

Kirkpatrick said the decision frustrating.

“Even though the court recognises the FDA is failing to follow its own rules, it considers this a minor procedural violation. Apparently, the FDA can ignore its own deadlines with no consequences,” he explained.

Michael Kirkpatrick, attorney at Public Citizen

Rosie Tilli, a PSSD sufferer who has been raising awareness about the condition, also expressed her dismay.

“What’s most concerning is that the system is set up in such a way that it’s nearly impossible to hold the FDA accountable,” said Tilli.

“The FDA has yet to issue any warnings on PSSD, despite evidence from clinical trials and letters from pharmaceutical companies, like Eli Lilly, warning them about the issue as early as 2011,” she explained. “That the FDA has failed to act is a glaring example of negligence.”

Rosie Tilli, PSSD Network

The bigger picture

The ruling raises concerns about accountability. The FDA is legally bound to respond to petitions, but as this case shows, there may be no way to enforce that rule.

Dr. Csoka criticised the system: “It’s like the court saying, ‘Yes, the system is broken, but you’re not the one allowed to fix it.’”

For patients, the delay is troubling. Studies suggest that PSSD could affect a significant number of antidepressant users, and without updated warnings, doctors and patients remain uninformed.

A 19-year retrospective cohort analysis recently published in the Annals of General Psychiatry, found that 1 in 216 males taking a serotonergic antidepressant (80% took an SSRI) experienced erectile dysfunction long after discontinuing their medication.

What’s next?

Despite the legal setback, advocates aren’t giving up.

“We will look into possible appeals or other ways to push for a decision,” Dr. Csoka said.

Kirkpatrick added that the lawsuit may still have an impact: “The FDA often acts once it feels pressure from litigation, even if the case gets dismissed.”

For now, the FDA remains silent on when—if ever—it will respond.

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Additional info:

June 2023: Antidepressants can cause 'chemical castration'

May 2024: FDA sued for not acting on petition about antidepressant harms

Maryanne Demasi PhD is an investigative journalist who writes for online media and top tiered medical journals. For over a decade

https://blog.maryannedemasi.com/p/case-dismissed-lawsuit-against-fda

Globalist Authoritarians Are Playing With Fire

 by Kurt Schlicter via Townhall.com,

What happened with Marine Le Pen, the most popular politician in France who was just banned from standing for election on the flimsiest of pretenses, is no exception. 

It’s becoming the rule around the West and in other places, too, where being outside the mainstream of authorized establishment left-leaning globalist politics has become criminalized. In some places, like the UK and Spain, it takes the form of persecuting people for saying things that those in power don’t want to hear. In other places, like Germany, upstart populist parties that earned a significant number of votes are informally, and sometimes formally, marginalized and threatened with being banned. 

But it’s the criminal persecution of leaders that is becoming the go-to. It happened to Bolsonaro in Brazil, Netanyahu in Israel, Georgescu in Romania, and Le Pen in France. 

In each of these cases, the establishment authoritarians essentially attempted to frame a politician they couldn’t beat at the ballot box. Of course, their American analogs tried to do the same thing to Donald Trump here, and when that didn’t work, their allies tried to murder him. Thankfully, they failed at both – with the people who instigated these atrocities too dumb to know that they are the ones who should be the most thankful they failed.

These are not the acts of strong and confident leaders who believe in the strength and popularity of their ideology. These are the cowardly acts of authoritarians who differ from Putin not in their nature but only in their extent. They haven’t thrown anybody out of a fifth-story window yet that we know of, though we don’t know if they actively put the murderer who tried to kill Trump in Butler up to it – the one who tried to ambush him in Florida was an active member of their collective – but they would’ve cheered if either attempt had succeeded. Thankfully, America was not so far gone that the people’s choice could not prevail, though the resisters in the judiciary, the regime media, and elsewhere are doing everything they can to ensure that the man the people elected to govern can’t actually exercise the powers of office. 

The European authoritarians, however, still have the ability to crush dissent. There are several reasons why, including the fact that most of the good Europeans long ago left for America, and the ones who remain are largely degraded and pathetic people. After all, Europe is an exhausted culture, too weak both morally and spiritually to come to its own defense. Its glorious cathedrals are museums now, and its armies are jokes. They can’t find the will or the courage to defend themselves, and Europeans have turned over their governance to corrupt, globalist fools who invite the Third World in to complete the destruction of what was the mother of civilization. 

Americans are saddened and sickened by them. It’s difficult to explain to Americans why we should spend our treasure and put our blood on the line for nations that oppress their own people and embrace sham democracy. Even the UK, the father of our democracy, has turned into a political deadbeat dad. Why should we have a special relationship with a country that sends cops to the house of parents complaining about school policies? Under the Democrats, they tried to do that here, and we rejected it. We demonstrated at least a modicum of manhood in the face of this petty tyranny. But until the Europeans demonstrate their commitment to doing something about their own enslavement, it’s unclear how we might help. We certainly shouldn’t be protecting them from other European dictatorships – we have no interest in refereeing among oppressors. The fact that they need us to do so reflects their decision to essentially disarm and become pathetic welfare states teaming with foreign parasites and native cowards.

In short, America cannot be expected to – and is not going to – care more about Europe than the Europeans do.

Our response as Americans to fascist acts like the framing of Le Pen should be loud and bold condemnation and contempt. What they are doing is truly disgusting – and dangerous, too. We should say so, especially since their citizens can’t without fear of a knock on the door. The European ruling class hates hearing it, especially when JD Vance goes overseas and tells them the truth to their smug, pale faces. Their fussy fury when he exposes their fake democracy and lies about freedom is hilarious. But all they should get from us is talk. We should let them fend for themselves. They are unworthy of a special relationship, and it’s impossible to frame a coherent or compelling explanation of why a single American paratrooper should die in defense of any country that refuses to allow its most popular politician to run because the establishment dislikes her platform.

We should certainly learn the lesson here about what’s going on over there, although, as we’ve seen, the Democrats have tried many of the same tactics. That they’ve been defeated so far is a testament to the fact that Americans are not yet completely broken. We’re not ready to be serfs, and the fact that we have more guns than people provides a powerful backstop against the kind of tyranny the globalist left would love to impose in America as well. 

I shudder to think of what would have happened if Trump had been murdered or if they had succeeded in knocking him off the ballot. But I’m not shuddering for my sake. If the stuff hits the fan, I and those like me will prevail. I’m shuttering over the fate of the morons whose greed, corruption, and stupidity would have sparked a conflict they are utterly unprepared to fight. And I do mean fight. That’s what happens when the ruling class uses a corrupt system to block the expression of the people’s will and leaves no peaceful path for it to be heard. We are very far from that here, but if it came to that, patriots would fight for our Constitution and our freedom. The elite and their minions? Who exactly would do their fighting? Who is willing to die to enact the Green New Deal, to impose DEI, or to allow dudes in girls' toilets? Harry Sisson would flee to Canada to be a sex pest at the local Tim Horton’s before he ever picked up a rifle.

Will there be a revolution in Europe? France was once famous for its revolting people. There’s a lot of anger, but there aren’t a lot of weapons left among the citizenry – never, ever, give up your guns and, in fact, go buy guns and ammunition. On the other hand, there aren’t a lot of troops either for the governments to use to suppress their own people and force the people to accept the dictatorship should the Euro masses decide to leave their tiny, squalid apartments and take to the streets. The ugly truth is that civil wars don’t necessarily require guns. Hundreds of thousands of people were butchered in Rwanda with knives and machetes. Maybe Keir Starmer was thinking ahead when he banned ninja swords. 

Civil wars are the least civil kind of wars. They are best avoided.

Or maybe they will just accept a picture of the future that is a wizened EU crone’s Gucci slipper stamping on a human face forever. Maybe manipulating the judicial system to ensure that the supporters of popular leaders are disenfranchised won’t cause any more reaction among the people than some grumbling in their bizarre foreign languages. But, if you’re familiar with history, and most of our elite no longer is, you might remember Julius Caesar and his crossing of the Rubicon. The Rubicon was the border to Italy that a Roman proconsul serving abroad could not cross at the head of his armed troops. Caesar knew that if he laid down his imperium and returned to Rome as a civilian, his political enemies would use the judiciary to destroy him. So, he didn’t lay down his imperium when he returned to Rome. He brought his legionnaires.

Now, one might point out that Caesar’s political enemies did eventually murder him after he essentially became a dictator in fact, if not title. That’s true. Caesar was famously merciful to his enemies. Several of the men who slaughtered him had received his pardon. The guy who came after him didn’t make that mistake. Caesar’s heir hunted down those murderers and killed them, along with a lot of other people. Augustus then made himself emperor, again in fact if not title. 

In the end, the elite probably would have been better off not messing with Caesar and addressing the concerns of the plebs who adored him. Perhaps history is teaching us that today’s popular leaders like Donald Trump and Marine La Pen are not the people’s last chance. They are the globalist’s last chance.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/globalist-authoritarians-are-playing-fire

Harris’ top campaign advisor admits Democrat’s major flub on ‘The View’ left her stunned

 A former top advisor to Vice President Kamala Harris’ failed presidential campaign was shocked when Harris told “The View” that she wouldn’t have done anything different from President Biden, according to a new book by reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes.

With roughly one month to go until the November election, Harris famously told the liberal hosts that nothing “comes to mind” after they asked her to name something she would’ve done differently than Biden over the past four years.

Harris senior campaign advisor Stephanie Cutter was floored at Harris’ response, according to Allen and Parnes’ new book released this month entitled, “FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.”

“What the hell was that?” Cutter recalled thinking to herself.

“That’s not what we practiced.”

The gaffe became a moment that defined Harris’ campaign and provided ammunition for her opponent.

The Trump campaign immediately seized on the gaffe and started sharing the clip to voters via social media and text message that afternoon.

“It provided the money shot” for Trump’s ad makers,” the book quotes a Harris ally as saying.

Harris’s ex-campaign advisor was shocked and released a new book this month entitled “FIGHT: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House.”ABC

“And it was her own bad moment.”

“When she gave us the gift of the View interview, we were able to anchor her to the Biden administration in her own words, which is something we were trying to do anyway,” one Trump advisor says in the book.

The Democratic candidate faced scrutiny throughout her campaign for not breaking with Biden on more issues after she took his spot at the top of the ticket.

Harris’ answer had “done little to erase the impression that her reason for running was one of circumstance,” the book’s authors noted.

The vice president was facing pressure from Biden to remain loyal to him and put “no “daylight” between them during her campaign, the book said.

Ahead of her first interview as the Democratic candidate, Harris was prepped by aides with a list of items she could name that made her “proud of her work with Biden,” the book also said.

Harris’ office did not immediately return a request for comment. 

https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/media/kamala-harris-campaign-advisor-floored-by-democrats-flub-on-the-view/

Bill Banning Geoengineering And Weather Modification Passes Florida Senate

 by Debra Heine via American Greatness,

The Florida Senate passed a bill prohibiting geoengineering and weather modification by a vote of 28-9, Thursday. SB-56, dubbed the “chemtrails bill” by the media, prohibits “the injection, release, or dispersion, by any means, of a chemical, a chemical compound, a substance, or an apparatus into the atmosphere within the borders of this state for the express purpose of affecting the temperature, weather, climate, or intensity of sunlight.”

The bill also requires the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) to set up a system where residents can report “suspected geoengineering activities” and directs the FDEP to investigate those claims, WFLA reported.

Geoengineering, or climate engineering is defined as “the intentional large-scale alteration of the planetary environment to counteract [alleged] anthropogenic climate change.”

Florida’s bill banning the practice must now be approved in the Florida House, which has its own watered down version.

If a bill passes, Florida would become the second state in the nation to ban geoengineering. Tennessee passed its own bill banning geoengineering and weather modification in 2024.

Over two dozen other states, including Kentucky, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Arizona, Iowa, Mississippi, North Dakota, South Carolina, Utah, Wyoming, Alabama, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia, Missouri, and Maine have introduced similar legislation in 2024 or 2025, and are pending further action.

The Tennessee law went into effect July 1, 2024. Florida’s legislation is set to take effect on July 1.

The bill’s sponsor, Republican Ileana Garcia, said the legislation became necessary after her constituents repeatedly voiced concerns about unknown entities altering the atmosphere in Florida without their consent.

“Many of us senators receive concerns, complaints on a regular basis regarding these condensation trails, aka chemtrails,” Garcia said in a committee hearing last month. “There’s a lot of skepticism.”

“I have a problem with people spraying perfume around me sometimes, don’t you have a problem with people spraying things into the atmosphere that really have no type of empirical data, that you just don’t know who they are or what they’re doing?” Garcia said Thursday.

Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo expressed support for the Senate Bill on Wednesday.

“Big thanks to Senator Garcia for leading efforts to reduce geoengineering and weather modification activities in our Florida skies,” Ladapo posted on X. “These planes release aluminum, sulfates, and other compounds with unknown and harmful effects on human health. We have to keep fighting to clean up the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the food we eat.”

Governor Ron DeSantis said that he supports the bill passed by the Senate, but that it was “gutted” by the House lawmakers who cut it down from 10 pages to a single page on Wednesday.

“I support the legislation, however, the Florida House of Representatives has gutted Sen. Garcia’s legislation, and they would actually codify the practice of geoengineering and weather modification,” DeSantis said in a video posted to X.

The House version of the bill does not forbid the practice of weather modification outright, just without a license. It also comes with a less steep penalty.

The Senate version, which would impose a sweeping ban, calls for violators to be charged with a third-degree felony and face a fine up to $100,000. The House version would charge those without a license, or who lie on their application, with a second-degree misdemeanor and up to a $10,000 fine.

“People have a lot of kooky ideas that they can get in and put things in the atmosphere to block the sun and save us from climate change,” DeSantis said. “We’re not playing that game in Florida.”

“Thank you for your support, Governor,” Garcia posted on X. “Don’t tread on our☀️sunshine!”

California based attorney Nicole Shanahan also applauded the bill on X.

“Banning geoengineering at the state level is a good start but real change happens when we expose the bad actors who have been funding these projects and are heavily invested in preventing an end to this at the federal level,” Shanahan wrote. She thanked her former running mate, former Independent candidate for president, now HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  “for naming it what it is: a crime.”

In an interview last year, RFK Jr. warned that The World Economic Forum and Bill Gates had “hijacked geoengineering,” with Gates funding these projects around the world.

“They aggravate the problem then sell us the solution,” Kennedy explained, adding that the solution is that “they want is more social controls.”

“Geoengineering is a threat that the environmental community needs to know about and the rest of us needs to know about,” he said.

Shanahan recently sat down with researcher Peter Kirby, author of Chemtrails Exposed: a New Manhattan Project, for a long, eye-opening discussion on what’s been going on in our skies.

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https://www.zerohedge.com/political/bill-banning-geoengineering-and-weather-modification-passes-florida-senate

Israel Seizes Rafah In Expanded Operation, Hundreds Of Thousands Flee

 The Israeli military (IDF) has expanded its Gaza operations over the last 24 hours, and has announced a new focus on establishing a "security zone" in an around the southern city of Rafah.

The push into Rafah is intended to dismantle all remaining Hamas infrastructure and command activity, given the city is seen as the group's last main stronghold in the Gaza Strip.

This has unleashed a new wave of mass displacement, with reports of hundreds of thousands fleeing the city amid the assault. The enclave for more than the last year been even more crowded, given it has served as a last place of refuge for the displaced from northern and central Gaza.

IDF spox Effie Defrin, via Israeli military

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir visited Gaza this week, delivering the following message of intensified operations to get back all of the remaining hostages:

During the visit, Zamir addressed troops near Rafah, stating that the Israel Defense Forces are intensifying their offensive at a deliberate and determined pace. He emphasized that the military effort would continue until all Israeli hostages are returned and declared the mission far from over.

Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry has announced at least 97 people killed in Israeli strikes from Wednesday into Thursday, including at least 20 killed in a dawn airstrike on a suburb of Gaza City.

According to a Palestinian eyewitness of the stepped up assault who spoke to Reuters:

Rafah "is gone, it is being wiped out," a father of seven among the hundreds of thousands who had fled from Rafah to neighboring Khan Younis, told Reuters via a chat app.

"They are knocking down what is left standing of houses and property," said the man who declined to be identified for fear of repercussions.

A ground assault on eastern Gaza City is also reported to be ongoing. This week has seen the heaviest escalation of the ground and aerial assault since the ceasefire collapsed last month.

Meanwhile controversy and international outraged has continued over the recent killings of a group of Palestinian emergency responders:

The Israeli military killed 15 medics and emergency workers in southern Gaza and buried the bodies with their ambulances and rescue vehicles last month.

Dr Ahmed al-Farra, director of pediatrics at Al-Tahreer Maternity Hospital in southern Khan Younis, saw the bodies coming into the medical facility after they were recovered a week later. He said Israeli soldiers would have easily seen they were targeting medics when they opened fire.

"The skies are filled with their planes, they can see a needle on the ground. So they could easily distinguish ambulances," al-Farra told Al Jazeera.

"When the bodies came to the hospital, they were nearly decomposed. It had been around seven to eight days since the medics were executed. I saw three of them had their hands tied behind their backs."

Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have continued lobbing rockets on southern Israel, with a new round launched on Thursday. Warning sirens have returned to becoming a regular feature of life in Israeli towns and cities in the south and central of the country.

⚡️Nonstop Israeli strikes across Gaza pic.twitter.com/FZhk636IxG

— War Monitor (@WarMonitors) April 3, 2025

The wartime situation is set to continue for the foreseeable future, given new IDF spokesman, Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, declared Thursday that the military has entered "a new stage" of the fight against Hamas. "The plan serves the goals of the war, returning the hostages and destroying Hamas’s military and governing capabilities," he said.

The IDF is maintaining "operational ambiguity, so we can surprise the enemy and bring about significant achievements," he said, adding that "our actions will speak".

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/israel-seizes-rafah-expanded-operation-hundreds-thousands-flee

How did young people go so wrong they cheer killers and rapists of Hamas?

 By 

Douglas Murray

I’ll be launching my new book Friday afternoon at Columbia University. “On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization” will be available from all good bookshops on April 8th and is available for pre-order now.

I accepted the invitation from the good students of Columbia because it is at just such institutions that we have seen one of the most disturbing things to happen since the attacks of October 7, 2023.

You would have thought that when young women are raped by gangs of armed men that young Americans would not be on the side of the rapists.

When a party of young people at a dance rave in the early hours of the morning are attacked by truckloads of armed terrorists you would think it would be an easy one to understand. Should you be on the side of the unarmed, terrified young people being hunted down in the woods and the fields, raped, shot and macheted in front of their friends?

Or should you be on the side of the monsters who committed those acts — the people who roamed among the piles of dead bodies to see who might still be alive, who could be kidnapped and stolen from their families?

One survivor of the Nova party told me of seeing a young woman on her knees in front of a gang of armed men. Her best friend had just been killed in front of her. The terrorists were debating whether to kill her or kidnap her.

“I don’t want to die” she was screaming. The terrorists shot her in the face as she was screaming.

Is it hard to decide which side to be on after an atrocity like that? For me it isn’t. For most Americans it isn’t.

But an alarming number of people — especially the youngest and most privileged people in our society — chose the other side. Instead of being on the side of the victims, they sided with the perpetrators.

Douglas Murray’s new book “On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization.”

They could have sided with the people who had been kidnapped — including young Americans like 21-year-old Edan Alexander from New Jersey, who is still being held in Hamas captivity. Instead they sided with the kidnappers.

They did so long before Israel’s military response began in Gaza: an action with two aims — to release the hostages and to destroy Hamas.

We now know that on the day of October 7th pro-terror groups in the US were organizing to attack Israel — to demonize it and to lie about it. As I reported here in The Post at the time, on October 8th some of these terrorist supporters gathered in Times Square —to support the massacres as they were still going on.

None of this moral insanity happened because of Israel’s actions. It happened because we have people in our midst who are on the side of the rapists, murderers, beheaders and kidnappers.

What the hell has gone wrong? This is one of the big questions I ask — and try to answer — in my new book. I do because I believe that the outbreak of disorder and violence which has burst out on the streets and campuses of this city since October 7, 2023 is not Israel’s problem. It is ours.

Look at the people who are even now shutting down streets and campuses in New York. Now they are protesting about the detention of one of the organizers of the Columbia protests — Mahmoud Khalil. Yesterday students at Columbia chained themselves to a gate in protest at what they call Khalil’s “kidnapping” by the US immigration authorities.I must have missed the time they chained themselves to the gates to protest the actual kidnapping of Edan Alexander. Or Hersh Goldberg-Polin from California who was kidnapped from the Nova music festival, held captive for a year and then murdered by Hamas.

Some campaigners for Khalil have spent recent weeks saying that he did nothing wrong. They are trying to pretend that this 30-year-old agitator on a Green Card who was weirdly living in student accommodation, despite not being a student, is some sort of free-speech martyr. They pretend even now that all he did was act as a “negotiator” for the pro-Hamas students.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Khalil served as the spokesman for a group that called itself “Columbia University Apartheid Divest” (CUAD).

This group declares in its own mission statements that it is “fighting for the total eradication of Western civilization.” Good to know. It also claims that the attacks of October 7th were “a moral, military, and political victory.”

Wow.

So people like Khalil and his friends made it very clear which side they were on. They despise any and every action of Israel’s army to defend itself. They describe anything that the IDF does as “genocide,” “ethnic-cleansing,” “white-supremacy” and more. The IDF’s actions are none of these things.

None of these muppets can explain how the population of Gaza can both grow in size and be subjected to a genocide. Consistency and rationality are as much strangers to them as decency and morality are.

But these protestors have chosen their target well. They believe that Israel is absolutely central to the West. I agree with them. They believe that the Jewish State is vitally important. I agree with them.

Where we disagree is that I want the Jewish State to thrive and succeed — in peace with its neighbors. These groups want it wiped out.

And, as Khalil and his friends have made clear, Israel is only the first country in their sights. But it is by no means the last. These groups hate America more than anything. That is why they use this country, abuse this country, spit on this country, say they want to destroy this country and burn the American flag at any opportunity they get.

This is a civilizational moment. And I believe Israel shows how we can win it.

“On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization” is published by Harper Collins on April 8th.

https://nypost.com/2025/04/03/opinion/how-did-young-people-go-so-wrong-they-cheer-killers-and-rapists-of-hamas/