For years, defenders of the increasingly anti-Israel radical Left have insisted that its activists are simply criticizing Israeli government policy. They don’t hate Israel, we are told. They only oppose settlements, military operations in Gaza, or American military aid.
But sometimes someone says the quiet part out loud.
Megan Romer, national co-chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, did exactly that during a remarkably revealing interview with New Yorker editor David Remnick.
Asked what the DSA actually wants for Israel and the Palestinians, Romer replied that the organization supports “a free Palestine with the capital in Jerusalem.” When Remnick pressed her on whether that meant a two-state solution or a single state replacing Israel, Romer acknowledged that her answer could “be safely read as a one-state solution.”
That distinction matters enormously.
This isn’t merely a dispute over where Israel’s borders should be drawn.
It raises the far more fundamental question of whether the world’s only Jewish state should continue to exist at all.
And Romer’s comments became even more disturbing when the conversation turned to October 7.
When A Massacre Becomes “Inevitable”
Remnick asked Romer about an anti-Israel rally held in New York on October 8, 2023–the day after Hamas terrorists slaughtered approximately 1,200 people in Israel and abducted more than 200 hostages.
Would she have attended?
“Probably,” Romer answered.
When Remnick emphasized that this was just one day after the massacre, Romer responded that October 7 was “largely inevitable,” arguing that Palestinians living under Israeli policies could eventually be expected to revolt.
She insisted she was not defending attacks against civilians. But Remnick immediately challenged the contradiction: if you say you would have joined such a rally immediately after the massacre and then explain why the massacre was inevitable, where exactly does explanation end and justification begin?
This is one of the most dangerous transformations taking place in Western attitudes toward Israel.
October 7 is slowly being rewritten.
What began as the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is increasingly being filtered through the language of “resistance,” “decolonization” and “oppression.”
The killers become revolutionaries.
The murdered become representatives of an oppressive system.
And Israel’s attempt to defend itself becomes the greater crime.
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This Didn’t Begin With Romer
The significance of the interview is that Romer isn’t some anonymous activist with a megaphone.
She helps lead the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization enjoying growing electoral success.
Nor is her rhetoric disconnected from DSA’s official positions.
