If some of the hundreds of thousands of pro Hamas, anti-Israel demonstrators across the country — and the world — volunteered to fight for the Hamas terrorists the war might be over by now.

And Israel might have been defeated.

But is so much easier to shut down bridges in New York, deface the gate outside of the White House, harass American Jews, tear down hostage posters and chant inane slogans about destroying Israel and killing everybody in it, than it is to man an AK-47 and fight in the rubble of Gaza City.

In Washington and New York, law-breaking demonstrators do not even get arrested. Fighting for their cause in Gaza would get them killed.

But these loud and well-organized antisemitic demonstrators, especially in left-leaning colleges and universities like Harvard, would rather chant mindless slogans than put on a set of fatigues and do some real fighting.

And some of the Harvard pro-Hamas demonstrators in Cambridge are so uneducated, so downright ignorant, that they think the chant “From the river to the sea” means from the Charles River to the Bourne Bridge.

Nevertheless, the pro-terrorist Hamas propaganda offensive in the U.S.  has been so successful — and forced so many Democrats, like Joe Biden — to wobble in their support of Israel, that you would think that Israel launched a surprise attack on Gaza and slaughtered men, women, children and babies and not the other way around.

Ten Americans were killed among the 1,200 Israeli’s massacred in that Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist invasion, but Biden seems to have forgotten about them.

And, according to the State Department, at least eight American citizens, presumably Jewish, have been killed while serving with the IDF forces in Gaza since the war began. No mention of them either.

While it is unknown how many — if any — pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protestors have volunteered to fight for Hamas in Gaza, some 10,000 American Jews have been mobilized to fight with the IDF in Gaza. Most are reservists or have served previously. Some 1,200 Americans serve in the IDF at any given time.

So, Biden should be dealing from strength, not weakness. But instead of outwardly commenting on Americans killed or held hostage by Hamas, Biden comes across as a pathetic supplicant practically begging — instead of demanding — Hamas and Iran, which funds the terrorist group, release all Americans held hostage.

Listening to Democrats Senators Eddie Markey, Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Ayanna Pressley call for a cease-fire, you would think that terrorist-controlled Gaza was the U.S.’s oldest ally in the Mideast and not Israel, a democracy.

The pro Hamas, anti-Israel — and antisemitic — demonstrations have clearly rattled the Democratic Party.  American Jews have long been major Democratic supporters and contributors.

The tail is wagging the dog. Of the 327 million people in the country, less than 200,000, or 0.05%, are of Palestinian descent. There are some 6.3 million Americans who identify as Jews, or some 2.2% of the entire population.

Not only that, Rep. Rashida Tlaib, the outspoken pro-Hamas antisemite from Michigan, is the only woman of Palestinian descent in Congress. Yet she has been able to steal the stage from Jewish American politicians.

One would think that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer would have had something to say earlier about the attacks on American Jews.

Not only is Schumer the leading Jewish American in Congress, but Jews in his home state of New York have been subjected to a series of scurrilous attacks at the hands of pro-Hamas demonstrators.

Schumer finally spoke out against antisemitism in an emotional speech Wednesday, calling the chant “From the river to the sea “ a violently antisemitic message.”

Previously Schumer had been as silent on the issue. Also silent has been  Doug Emhoff, the Jewish American husband of Vice President Kamala Harris.

And it would be helpful if prominent Jewish American businessmen and philanthropists like Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, made his voice heard.

If Israel or American Jews wait on Joe Biden to take a leadership role in helping Israel destroy Hamas or deal with the wave of antisemitism roiling the country, they will be waiting a long time.

Biden’s next move will be forcing the Israeli Army to withdraw from Gaza the way he cut and ran in Afghanistan and call it a victory.

Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.