Julian Epstein’s blunt warning on Life, Liberty & Levin landed like a cold bucket of truth for anyone still treating the pro-Palestinian movement as a neutral humanitarian cause: he said this movement is not about peace but about destroying Israel. That statement came during his appearance on Mark Levin’s program, where the stakes of the Gaza negotiations and regional security were front and center.
Americans watched the recent Gaza deal negotiations with hope that hostages would come home and a real ceasefire might stick, but Epstein reminded viewers that a paper agreement does not change the underlying ideological commitment of groups that openly celebrate violence against Jews. Too many in the mainstream media want to treat the deal as an endpoint rather than a pause in a larger, existential campaign against Israel.
Let’s be honest: when a movement’s slogans chant “from the river to the sea,” and campus protests morph into mobs cheering hatred, we are not witnessing a plea for two-states or compassionate reform — we are witnessing the political theater of people who want to erase a nation. Conservatives have been warning for years that much of today’s so-called solidarity is performative and driven by anti-Israel and antisemitic elements that will not accept coexistence.
The political left’s reflexive framing of every Israeli response as the problem has enabled this moral inversion, turning legitimate concern for civilians into a club to delegitimize Israel and to weaponize American guilt politics. Republican and conservative voices must not let the media or the mob rewrite the story into one where America stands neutral while our closest ally is attacked and delegitimized.
This is more than foreign policy drama — it’s about the survival of a democratic ally in a neighborhood full of tyrants and genocidal ideologues. Washington should stand with Israel, demand real concessions from Hamas and its backers, and stop indulging the spectacle of protests that too often celebrate terror rather than condemn it.
Hardworking Americans understand what true peace requires: secure borders, mutual recognition, and enemies who are defeated politically and ideologically, not appeased. It’s time for our leaders to stop playing nice with those who refuse to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and to finally put American strength and moral clarity back at the center of our foreign policy and public debate.
