Pro-Palestinian protesters excuse Hamas horror
Quin Hillyer
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To see so many rabid protests in favor of Palestinians, against not just Israel but Jews in general, and to buy into the anti-American narrative that is a major subtext of those protests, is to recognize a mass contagion, a mental virus, a pathology so dark that an observer can’t know exactly how much of it is malevolence and how much is sheer lunacy.
There is no doubt, though, that the pathology is indeed a combination of lunacy and malevolence with no redeeming features.
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Many of the protesters, and many of the supporters of the Palestinians and the excuse-makers for Hamas, are young adults. They buy into the pathetically simplistic narrative that divides the world into oppressors vs. oppressed, colonizers vs. colonized, victimizers vs. victims. Some observers want to make excuses for them, to lay the blame on leftist professors or on ignorant grade school teachers. Or, observers say that because this cohort is too young to remember the 9/11 terrorism or at least to have understood its context in real time, they can be excused for being confused.
These excuses are pernicious nonsense.
They are pernicious because in a free society there is no excuse for adults to side with rank hatred. This is not a totalitarian society where no information aside from an official narrative is available to thinking adults. Especially in this information age, the excuse that people are brainwashed by crazy professors, or that they are innocently ignorant of actual history or incapable of commonsensically applying normative ethics, is absurd. If young adults adopt antisemitism, or if they side with those who deliberately butcher or burn alive innocent women and children over those who make extra efforts to spare civilians, then the blame for their moral rot is theirs alone.
The truth is so easy to find, so readily available through so many sources, that it is unforgivable to succumb to facile sloganeering in favor of a hateful cause.
And if these young people can’t see that hundreds of thousands of people on the National Mall peacefully and lovingly standing in solidarity with Israel are far more admirable than hundreds yelling hate and violently blocking roadways, bridges, and building entrances — or if, worse, they join the violent pro-Hamas mobs — their moral compasses are haywire.
It is an objective fact that ordinary Arabs and Muslims enjoy more civil rights and more human rights in Israel than they do in any other Middle Eastern nation. It is an objective fact that in 1948, Jewish leaders welcomed a two-state solution in the lands of the Levant, but that Arab leaders rejected it. It is objective fact that Israel has repeatedly traded land for peace, only to be met with years of continued attacks from Gaza. It is objective fact that Israel provided fuel and water and humanitarian assistance to Gaza, and that it had greatly expanded economic incentives to Gazan workers — but that Hamas itself has bragged that it turned water pipes into munitions casings and diverted other resources into tunnels and terrorist training rather than helping its own people thrive.
It is objective fact that on Oct. 7, Hamas attackers specifically targeted civilians. They tortured to death parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents. They raped women. They called home to brag to their parents about how many civilian Jews they killed. One group of Hamas swine bound and gagged a pregnant woman, cut open her belly and, as she writhed in unspeakable pain, they repeatedly stabbed the head of the child that emerged so she could see her unborn baby suffer and die before her own body bled its own horrid way to death.
Then Hamas uses its own civilians as human shields, blocks them from fleeing to safety, and shoots into the “safe corridors” set up by Israel to help Palestinian civilians escape the fighting.
Hamas’s adherents dishonor the god they claim to serve.
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There is no justifiable morality that allows for being angrier at Israel than at Hamas. No justifiable morality blames Israel for Gaza’s plight when Gaza’s own people welcomed Hamas into power, when they repeatedly lob rockets at Israel’s civilian population, when they greet Israel’s abandonment of land not with the promised peace but with intifadas.
Sometimes there is no doubt what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is unspeakable evil. Hamas and all who give it support, whether explicit or tacit, are evil. Hamas, indeed, is inherently demonic.