Following an FBI report showing the U.S. murder rate soared 30 percent in 2020 – the biggest single-year increase ever recorded – the “defund the police” movement has found itself on its backfoot. Writing in City Journal, Charles Fain Lehman charts the many imaginative ways the Left has tried to wave away the violence its protests and demands have unleashed.

Catalyst for Civilizational Collapse
There’s no longer any doubt, writes Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill: the radical left, “keffiyeh-adorned lowlifes”, Islamofascists and the Green Party of England all want the same thing. Not “to end the war in Gaza but to end Israel.” Their behaviour shows they actually enjoy Jewish suffering. If anti-Semites get their way, O’Neill warns, “7 October [will] look like a tea party.” And as Hannah Arendt famously warned, generalized Jew-hatred becomes the catalyst for civilizational ruin.
For more on this topic, check this C2C article by Lynne Cohen.


