Bill Maher may not be a conservative, and he still has some liberal issues, but his show is always interesting because he's willing to challenge the liberal orthodoxy and ask questions that other liberals won't. He's more of a classical liberal in many ways. He's ripped apart the moral equivalency game that some on the left played to justify the attack on Israel. 

But even he said he was a bit astounded by the explosion of antisemitism in the U.S. and with college students after the Hamas attack on Israel. He made a fascinating comparison to the tiki torch bearers of Charlottesville and said that the college students are the tiki torch bearers now, with their hatred of the Jews. 

First, let's note one of those things he's wrong about -- Trump did condemn the tiki torch characters unequivocally. 

But why the whipping up of hatred with the college students? The panel talked about the bigotry toward Jews and how social media is making things worse, and that's certainly true. But the reason for such venom is the leftist indoctrination of the college students in question and the painting of Israel as the product of the Western oppressors. 

Maher laid it out in a great segment and skewered this liberal mentality, highlighting how Western civilization has been a benefit to the world, which today's college students seem to have been taught to despise. 

He notes it's Western civilization that has given the world every principle that "liberals are supposed to adore," such as individual liberty, freedom of speech, religious freedom, human rights, and the rule of law. 

"Please, someone stop us before we enlighten again," he said sarcastically. He noted you can find all those things in Israel and practically nowhere else in the Middle East. The world would be better off if it had more Israels, he said. He added this is lost on the left who reduces things to victims and victimizers, and they make Israel bad because it's the "toxic fruit of the victimizing West." 

"The irony being that all marginalized people live better today because of Western ideals, not in spite of them," Maher declared. He then listed some of the great contributions throughout history to such thought that just happened to be from old white Western guys. 

It's about the binary of the victim and the oppressor, not the liberal ideas. Because if it was about the ideas, would they be cheering on Hamas for their liberation, Maher asked? What would that "liberation" mean for the people? To more freely preside over a country with no laws against sexual harassment, spousal rape, child marriage, and domestic violence? But this is what liberals are standing with, Maher pointed out. Maher also observed the land wasn't seized by Israel but created by U.N. resolution, something that they don't "teach at Drag Queen story hour anymore."

The ideas of Western civilization are what "make life good for most people in free societies today -- that the individuals have value and even the powers that be must submit to the rule of law, that punishment should not be cruel and unusual, that the accused people get a trial." Yet the left wants to blame the West for its worst actions while ignoring what it has given the world. 

Maher's observation that the left truly isn't embracing the idea but just the binary is a great observation. It's like everything they embrace -- those ideas are just to be used to promote the chaos and the movement toward the revolution. It's not really about the ideas or whatever the cause of the moment is. It's why they truly don't believe in individual liberties but rather in identity politics and the victim mentality. It's why they rip down posters of kidnapped children. It isn't about the individual rights of those children, it's about the flyers offending their serfs with who the real victims are in this scenario.