I'm pretty appalled at how much blatant and latent anti-Semitism is propagated around people that I thought should know better. I 100% support expressing concern and outrage over Israeli policies but many of these expressions are well beyond that. Hamas is a terrorist organization plain and simple. Them having government roles is akin to al Qaeda in Iraq in that it doesn't change that their primary purpose and nature is terrorism. Minimizing Hamas is bad, supporting them is worse. Minimizing Hamas's role in the plight of Palestinians over the years, not just through their terrorist attacks but how they have run areas they control, is also not good. Using supposedly pro-Palestinian slogans like "from the river to the sea" which is explicitly for the eradication of the state of Israel is the same sort of anti-Semitic dog whistle as the neo-Nazis using 88, "Fourteen Words", or etc. isn't showing support for Palestinian people it is projecting anti-Semitism and supporting wiping Israel off the map and kicking Jewish people out of the area. I won't even get into the at best non-reactions that is happening to the surge in explicit anti-Semitism and attacks on Jews throughout the US and Europe.
I wish more people cared about the Palestinian people for the past several decades to help move a solution forward. No one, the West, not the Arab or Muslim powers in the region, not the governments they "elected" (the terrorist organization Hamas), or anyone else ever really have. When the Hamas terrorist scourge has been eradicated hopefully we can all focus on addressing the Palestinian's real problems productively rather than going back to ignoring them until another terrorist attack, beyond the weekly missile strikes that Hamas has been conducting for years, stokes the bees nest again.
In the immediate term the reckoning on anti-Semitism of the far left being equally horrific as on the far right needs to be addressed ASAP. It is a cancer from either part of the political spectrum.
Hank G ☑️ /
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