To the pondering Jew

(JNS) — On his nightly program recently, long-running HBO news pundit Bill Maher, in reference to one of U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris’s dire misassessments of Hamas’s nefarious intent, demanded that she just “shut up” already.

Coming from a lifelong liberal, Maher’s acerbic reprimand should cause pondering Jews to sit up and take note.

Maher’s negative assessment of Harris’s grasp on the true nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is further reinforced by the vice president’s completely out-of-touch cheerleading during the presidential debate on Sept. 10 when she emphatically proclaim...