If You’re Still Defending Hamas, WTF
A year after the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, Hamas is still the worst, and so are their defenders.
It’s been a whole year since October 7th, and somehow the world still seems confused about a few basic facts—like the difference between resistance and, oh, I don’t know, mass murder.
There is so much more to say and nothing left to say at the same time. So, naturally, I wrote a whole schpiel on it below.
You don’t need to be a Middle East expert to know that mass murder, rape, and kidnapping kids aren’t exactly endearing qualities for an organization to tout. And yet, that’s exactly what Hamas did on October 7th, 2023, a day Jews and the world of conscience will memorialize for eternity much like we do for 9/11.
If you need a recap or a vent session on just how grotesque the cruelty of Hamas’ attack was, keep reading.
At NOVA, a music festival for peace, over 360 people were slaughtered in broad daylight. Women were raped beside the bodies of their dead friends. The level of cruelty defies comprehension. This wasn’t some noble battle. This was blatant terrorism. Any other word for it is pathetic.
If this had happened at Coachella or Burning Man, we wouldn’t be philosophizing about the morality of a mass atrocity.
NOVA was more than 4x deadlier than America’s worst mass shooting, which also happened at an outdoor concert. Funny how gun control activists suddenly don’t give af when the people being butchered are in the Israeli desert.
In case it wasn’t incredibly obvious:
Hamas isn’t fighting for freedom. They’re fighting to destroy it.
Slaughtering thousands of civilians, taking hundreds of hostages, and burning families in their homes is not resistance.
It’s evil. And no slogan or hashtag will ever change that.
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And yet, despite this blatant atrocity, for the past year, Jews have been lectured on our own culture, identity, and history as if we don't know who tf we are.
Young people are reveling in the oldest conspiracy in the book: that the majority of Jews are abysmal pieces of shit, rotten to the core.
(They really don’t come up with anything new these days, do they?)
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October 7 was the day Hamas showed the world exactly who they are.
Sadly, it was also the day much of the world showed us who they are too.
I don’t care what your politics are:
Mass murder and rape are not things that ever need to be debated.
They need to be called out.
Loudly. (And sadly, repeatedly).
Shouting catchy slogans while conveniently ignoring (or rationalizing) literal terrorism is not justice.
It’s bullshit, and we all see it.
Funny how the people who tell everyone to “decenter” themselves from everything have managed to make a Middle East crisis all about themselves.
They say it’s about empathy, but empathy doesn’t belittle the most gruesome terrorist attack in modern history.
That’s not compassion—that’s tribalism, dressed up as “activism.” And it’s cheap.
True compassion isn’t based on whatever the current trending thing is.
Leave it to the people who smear literal shit on posters of kidnapped Israeli children to shout the loudest about human rights.
Make it make sense.
It doesn’t, and that’s the point.
It will never make sense.
If you’re the type of person who preaches against every injustice except for when Jews are being butchered and raped then please know that your activism is cheap and you are a fraud. And the sooner you realize that, the better.
They say self-awareness is the first step toward healing. So, maybe there's hope.
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This also isn't just something that happened to some people somewhere else.
The ripple effects are everywhere.
Over 10,000 antisemitic incidents have been reported in the last year, and that’s just in the U.S.
Here are just a *few* harrowing examples:
In Paris, 20 Jewish schools were evacuated following bomb threats.
In Dagestan, a mob hunted down Jews at an airport
At Cornell, a student called for the rape and murder of Jews.
This was all within a seven day period last October. I could go on, but you get the point: the world’s been a hotbed of antisemitic harassment since October 7th. And a large number of seemingly decent people have gone along with it. It doesn’t matter how many buzzwords you throw around—amplifying hate in the name of justice is still hate, even if it doesn’t fit into your aesthetic.
And the silence? That’s louder than all the recycled psychobabble combined.
To all the young, well-meaning activists out there: you can hate the current Israeli government as much as the next person and still not excuse a massacre.
These are two separate things.
One’s about politics, the other’s about basic human decency—like the right to not be murdered or raped at a concert, or, you know, slaughtered while sleeping in your own bed kind of decency.
You can stand with Palestinians who have suffered without shitting on Israelis or excusing terrorism.
It’s really not that hard. Two things can be true at once.
But let’s be real, it’s easier for most people to scream about Israel from behind their screen than it is to think deeply.
Fortunately, there were some righteous among the few too.
To the non-Jews who spoke up, texted a friend, or didn’t act like a complete maniac this past year:
Thank you.
The bar was low, but you did it.
This past year has tested us in ways we never imagined. It lit a fire in Jews who didn't even know they had a community before.
This next year will be better. Or at least less awful.
Either way, we'll be here for each other. No matter what. 🎗️🇮🇱
#AmYisraelChai #BringThemHome #NoHostageLeftBehind