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Josh Hammer

Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large And Host,
"The Josh Hammer Show"

Much has been made of the fact that President Joe Biden keeps on bending over backward to accommodate and mollycoddle not merely the Hamas jihadist organization, but also the outfit's subversive mini-jihadist supporters now running wild all across American university campuses. But why exactly is Biden acting like this? The conventional answer is that he is just caving to the far-left base of the Democratic Party—and that may well be correct. But has Biden paused to consider how his now-serial capitulations to Hamas is evil, and how his further manifest failure to properly condemn American jihadism and secure order on campus is actually alienating huge swaths of independent voters across many of the nation's leading swing states? Foolishly, it seems he has not. For details, read my most recent column.

On the most recent episode of "The Josh Hammer Show," I broke down all you need to know about the anarchic, pro-Hamas infestation now dominating American university campuses—and increasingly, our public squares and city streets. Put simply: What in the world is going on right now? How did we get to this tragic point where supporters of a U.S. State Department-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization are running wild everywhere? And finally, what can actually be done about it? You can listen to all episodes of "The Josh Hammer Show" at the Newsweek website and on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Some other recent highlights of mine from the past week include appearances with Lisa Boothe, "The Charlie Kirk Show," John Bachman, Carl Jackson, Seth Leibsohn, Jenna Ellis, Rob Schmitt, Rita Panahi, and more. I also published a new spicy essay for TomKlingenstein.com on the soft tyranny of the D.C. "Uniparty"—it's a fun read, so go ahead and check it out! To keep up with everything I'm doing, make sure to follow me on Twitter/X, Instagram, and Facebook. As a reminder, I also launched a second (legal-themed) show, "America on Trial with Josh Hammer," with The First; you can subscribe and listen to my daily episodes on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Our additional highlighted Newsweek op-eds from the past week includes selections from Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), Shoshana Bryen, and Mark Davis.

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Joe Biden, Dearborn Shahid, Commits Political Suicide via Hamas Appeasement

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis's ill-fated 2024 presidential campaign was much criticized for being "too online." But Democrats are no less prone to fall into that same trap. Now-Vice President Kamala Harris's 2020 presidential campaign, which generated considerable initial buzz before it abruptly sputtered, was infamous for listening too much to left-wing TV hosts and social media blue checkmarks—not actual Democratic primary voters. Indeed, that a loud political minority—either within a party or across the broader electorate—can drown out a less vocal political majority is now a fixture of our politics, helpfully explained by public choice theory.

President Joe Biden, now seeking a second term with the worst approval ratings for an incumbent since the 1950s, is once again committing the same mistake. The doddering dolt from Delaware has been on a monthslong crusade to mollycoddle Hamas, a U.S. State Department-recognized Foreign Terrorist Organization that slaughtered dozens of American citizens last October and still holds many hostage today in Gaza. The senile octogenarian, a mere puppet of his addlebrained ventriloquists, is now all in for Hamas.

By acceding to his young and hyper-online campaign staffers who have imbibed the woke catechism and thus view Hamas jihadists as "oppressed" victims of Israeli "oppressors," the president—or "Dr." Jill Biden, or whoever else controls Uncle Joe—is setting himself up for failure. By making such a strong play for states like Michigan, Biden is strapping on a political suicide vest and positioning himself to be a shahid for radicals in Dearborn, Michigan, who will never be appeased and who will continue to protest "genocide Joe" through election day. Meanwhile, Democrats' pampering of an Islamist death cult abroad and failure to crack down on supportive, fifth-column anarchists at home only alienate the vast majority of swing-state voters who are not virulently anti-Israel or antisemitic.

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