What the Left’s Support for Hamas Means

The Westerners making anti-Israel arguments are saying what they truly think, and we should take them very seriously.

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Demonstrators hold up placards and shout slogans as they take part in a rally in solidarity with Palestine near the White House in Washington, D.C., October 14, 2023.

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The “Free Palestine” movement is passionately wrong about all of its major claims, and thus a microcosm of the modern hard Left.

On October 7, Westerners (virtually) witnessed some of the worst para-military atrocities of our era, as armed fighters from the terrorist group Hamas broke through the Israeli border and slaughtered more than 1,000 civilians. Perhaps most shockingly, at least 260 people were killed at a single desert rave — ironically, a party dedicated to the hope of a stable future peace between Israelis and Palestinians. The apparently lifeless body of one female raver, Germany’s Shani Louk, was driven back to the Gaza Strip and paraded through the streets — nearly naked in the back of a pickup truck — while Palestinian men spit on it.

Wilfred Reilly

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Wilfred Reilly

Wilfred Reilly is an associate professor of political science at Kentucky State University and the author, most recently, of Lies My Liberal Teacher Told Me.

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