LIZ PEEK: Democrats rage over Trumps Iran strikes as exiles cheer ayatollahs fall

Leftists in the U.S. are seriously confused. While Iranians around the world celebrate the death of the thuggish Ayatollah Khamanei, who ruled their country with an iron fist, liberals in the U.S. are condemning President s war to liberate the Persian nation.  

Opposition to the U.S.-Israel joint attack on Iran was broad and swift, powered in part by Trump Derangement Syndrome — if hes behind it, theyre reliably against it — and also .  

The smoke had not yet cleared from the bombings in Iran before Democrats started shrieking their objections, with Connecticut Democrat Sen. Chris Murphy, for instance, calling it “dangerously illegal and a mistake of staggering scale,” and denouncing the president as a “would-be dictator.” Murphy has also called Israel’s policy in Gaza and in the West Bank “immoral”, and recently announced that he would not support additional military aid to Israel.

Anti-Israel Democrats in the House were especially strident, with “Squad” member from Michigan posting, “It’s clear that the genocidal govt of Israel doesn’t care about children + human life including our own loved ones in the military.” She also posted, “The government of Israel is addicted to bombing hospitals, schools, refugee camps which are all war crimes.” 

Democrats have been pulling away from their traditional backing of Israel for some time, and especially since the far left took hold of their party. Axios reported in December that the DNCs still-secret “autopsy” of why Vice President was defeated by Trump in 2024 concluded that the former VP “lost significant support because of the Biden administration’s approach to the war in Gaza…” 

That is, in sifting the ashes of the 2024 election for clues as to why an inarticulate candidate who admitted she couldnt think of a thing shed do differently from the wildly unpopular went down in flames, Democrat officials determined…it was Israels fault! Democrats are quick learners — their support of the Jewish state is dwindling fast.

It isnt just Democrats piling on. Criticism also came from far-right conspiracy theorists, too.

We also heard criticism from the utterly worthless and anti-Israel U.N., with Secretary-General António Guterres condemning the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes on Iran and demanding immediate negotiations “to pull the region, and our world, back from the brink.” 

Guterres has overseen a U.N. with “a glaring anti-Israel bias, advancing biased and one-sided efforts to isolate and delegitimize the Jewish state”, reports the pro-Jewish group AIPAC. A bias AIPAC can document and which, astonishingly, has “escalated dramatically since Hamas October 7 attack.”

Spineless European leaders stood on the sidelines, initially distancing themselves from the U.S.-Israeli initiative. UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer at first declined to give the U.S. permission to use its air bases, thus forcing American jets to undertake a 20-plus hour flight to carry out their mission. He then relented, earning ridicule from all sides.   

Of course, witless students also weighed in, with Columbia Universitys most renowned anti-Israel group, responsible for last years “encampment” built to protest the Gaza conflict, posting    “death to America” in Persian after the Irans Supreme Leader . That prompted Sen. Tex Cruz, R-Texas, to demand that foreign students sending out such anti-American messa