Last week we shone a light on the absurdity of the anti-war protest now sweeping the United States.

It's fair to say that my interview with the self-star performance artist known as Crackhead Barney caused a bit of a stir.

Many people questioned why I had it on a tool.

Well, did I really expect to get any sense out of a diaper-wearing demonstrator

who'd become infamous by harassing Alec Baldwin in a coffee shop? The answer is no, probably not.

But that was kind of the point. The protest movement is being overrun by ignorant virtue

signals, who are shifting the focus from where it needs to be, a brutal war on humanitarian

emergency in Gaza. Too many protesters on both sides

and make a miss all about them. We've lost sight of some home truths. Let's be pretty clear.

It's entirely possible to be anti-Israel in terms of its government, but not anti-Semitic.

It should be entirely possible to have serious moral arguments against the way Israel's prosecuting this war, but not called for the total eradication of Israeli state.

You can be anti-war without chanting from the river to the sea and defending a murderous death cult.

You can debate the issues without making yourself a central character.

This week, the focus should be on Rafa,

the southern Ghazan city

where more than a million people

who sought refuge from the Israeli assault

on the rest of the strip.

Israel is poised to invade it.

Its critics believe civilians will be sitting ducks

with nowhere else to go.

Mashed casualties will be inevitable.

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