When people chant for Hamas, excuse Hamas, or sanitize Hamas, they are not standing with justice. They are standing with a movement that has made murder, antisemitism, and the destruction of the Jewish state part of its identity.

One of the most disgusting moral failures of this era is watching people in the West, especially comfortable, performative activists who have never lived a day of Israeli reality, lecture Jews about Hamas as though they have discovered some deep truth the victims themselves somehow missed. They throw around words like resistance, liberation, and decolonization as if those slogans can wash blood off an organization that the United States formally designates as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and that the European Union targets under a dedicated sanctions regime for supporting, facilitating, or enabling Hamas violence after October 7. You do not get to rebrand a terrorist movement into a civil-rights campaign just because you found a fashionable slogan for it.

Let us begin with a fact that should not even be controversial: antisemitism is surging, and it surged harder after Hamas’s October 7 massacre. ADL recorded 9,354 antisemitic incidents in the United States in 2024, up from the already record-setting 8,873 in 2023; AP’s summary of the ADL findings noted that 58% of the 2024 incidents were tied to opposition to Israel and that this was the first time Israel-related incidents formed the majority of antisemitic activity in the audit. Reuters has also reported that attacks against Jews and Jewish targets rose worldwide after the war erupted in Gaza following Hamas’s attack on Israel. In other words, this is not paranoia and it is not a talking point. It is a documented international........

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