Walzer was a last holdout on the social democratic left who was willing to make it possible for the West to fight its enemies without being completely hamstrung by ethical and legal rules that essentially allow the enemy to win so long as defeating them harms "too many" civilians. Even if one believed this saved civilians in the short-run, in the long-run it leads to the end of civilized society, as civilized countries can't fight, but barbarians, who don't care about any moral or legal rules, aren't constrained at all.

Here is El-Sayed accusing Israel of genocide (without using the word) … in 2021.

It's so dishonest of you to talk about single-issue "pro-Israel" voters, when what's upset Jewish voters more than anything is (1) Him running a primary campaign demonizing AIPAC in a way very reminiscent of demagogic antisemitic campaigns throughout modern Western history; (2) his immediate reaction to the attempted murder of dozens of Jewish preschoolers by a domestic terrorist, "hurt people hurt people", ie empathy with the terrorist, not the victims; and (3) campaigning with a notorious antisemite, Hasan Piker. Note that none of those are "Israel" they are about stoking antisemitism, and empathizing with those who would mass-murder Jewish children. And non-Jewish voters who care about antisemitism/racism, as progressive claim to, should be just as upset about this as Jewish voters.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that you didn't send your son to a synagogue preschool (although I know you were raised Jewish), so you have no idea the visceral fear Jewish parents who do of hearing of a terrorist barely thwarted from a mass murder spree at such a school, and their visceral disgust that El-Sayed's first reaction was empathy for the terrorist.

Yes, El-Sayed signed a letter in Arabic in 2012 calling on the new Muslim brotherhood government in Egypt to crack down on dissenters. It’s so outrageous that people think that it must be made up right-wing propaganda, but it’s real. 1/

Which part of immediately empathizing with the terrorist who tried to murder dozens of Jewish preschoolers in Michigan is his position on Israel?

If @ossoff actually cared more about the security of Israelis rather than the 2028 Democratic primaries, he wouldn’t entertain dangerous lies about “genocide” and do on.

"Protestors" came to a leftist 10/7 memorial attended by Mamdani, heckled the participants, mocked Israeli victims, stole and vandalized memorial candles, and Rabbi Lau-Lavie says the hatred was "coming from a good place." No, rabbi, it wasn't. It was coming from a toxic red-green alliance mix that results in genocidal antisemitism. There's no more reason to give them the benefit of the doubt than Brownshirts assaulting Jews in the streets in the 1930s.

Note that El-Sayed's objection to Piker's rhetoric is not that its anti-American, pro-Communist, and antisemitic, but only that it's costing him votes.

"A UC Berkeley spokesperson ... said that the university will not cancel the event 'based on fears or expectations of what might be expressed.'" Berkeley shouldn't stop this event based on what might be expressed, it should do so based on what's already been expressed.[

lol, expelling students for interfering with other people’s right to peacefully hold a class is what the ACLU and Amnesty call “suppression of free speech.” In fact, allowing student mobs to disrupt classes would be an actual example.

Mamdani thinks Israel should not exist, falsely accuses Israel of genocide, has supported Hamas in the past, and refuses to condemn calls for Israel's violent destruction ("river to the sea", reasonably interpreted). This is what *you* call "legit" criticism of Israel.