The Amalek card gets played every time someone criticizes what Islam actually teaches about Jews, Christians, and apostates.

Especially in the last 2 to 3 years, since October 7th. You will see a flood of keyboard warriors and so-called experts on the conflict (basically two-minute TikTok warriors) rushing to shut the conversation down with the same tired line.

“The Bible has Genocide too.”

Except there’s one problem nobody wants to sit with: you cannot kill people who have been dead for 2,700 years.

That’s the whole argument. Right there.

Who Are the Amalekites and What Is Israel’s Beef With Them?

If you go through history, the Amalekites weren’t some random tribe caught in the wrong place (by the Israelites).

They were renowned for preying on the sick, the elderly, the women, and the weakest children trailing behind the Israelite column. They first did this to the stragglers who couldn’t keep up, right after Israel fled Egypt. The Amalekites were known for one thing: attacking defenseless refugees.

Deuteronomy 25:17-18 says: “Remember what the Amalekites did to you along the way when you came out of Egypt. When you were weary and worn out, they met you on your journey and attacked all who were lagging behind; they had no fear of God.”

They didn’t come to negotiate. They came to pick off the weakest people they could find.

Centuries later, God commanded Israel through the Prophet Samuel to King Saul: “Now go and attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them.” (1 Samuel 15:3) Brutal? You can say that. But if you believe in God, or even if you don’t, it pretty much seems the right thing to do to people who spent their existence slaughtering innocent civilians with no provocation whatsoever from those civilians.

Mind you, a key thing to note: according to the Torah, the Amalekites weren’t a people group Israel was supposed to attack at all, or commanded in any way to attack, before this provocation they started. The only reason they were marked out by God was because of their deliberate desire to attack the weak and innocent. (Numbers 24:20)

The Part Pro-Palestinians Conveniently Avoid When They Mention Amalek

Always remember, the Amalekites are gone.

That’s what the Pro-Palestinian side will never admit.

This is a people group lost through the pages of history. 

First Chronicles 4:42-43 records it: under King Hezekiah, roughly 700 BCE, Israelite soldiers killed the last remaining Amalekites.

Saul struck them. David struck them again. The Simeonites under Hezekiah finished the job.

Historians validate this. Scholar Carl Friedrich Keil establishes that........

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