As a former Muslim apologist and preacher, I once stood in the ranks of those who fervently defended Islam’s image at every turn. I debated, I argued, and I sought to present my faith as a beacon of justice and truth. But those days are long gone. Reality has a way of breaking even the most fortified walls of delusion.
Jalal Tagreeb
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Nothing has exposed the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the so-called “pro-Palestinian” movement more than its shameful, unrepentant embrace of Hamas.
The grim revelation of the Bibas family’s fate—a mother and her children throttled by Hamas’s bloody hands—should have triggered universal condemnation. Yet, where were the righteous cries from the self-proclaimed defenders of humanity? Silence. Or worse, a denialist acrobatics routine so absurd it could belong in a circus. Instead of demanding Hamas answer for its barbarity, we witnessed the usual contortions: blaming Israel, feigning ignorance, or indulging in grotesque celebrations of Jewish suffering.
Steve Apfel’s piece meticulously lays out an uncomfortable truth: there is no genuine distinction between being “pro-Palestinian” and supporting Hamas. The mask has slipped, revealing a movement that does not care about the well-being of Palestinian civilians but rather exults in the destruction of Jews. If these supposed humanitarians truly cared for the Palestinian people, they would demand an end to Hamas’s reign of terror over Gaza. Instead, they lionise it, excuse its atrocities, and cheer as it turns hospitals and schools into military installations.
The so-called “human rights” organisations are complicit in this charade. When 1,200 Israelis—men, women, children, and infants—were slaughtered, raped, and mutilated on October 7, Amnesty International and Oxfam did not condemn Hamas as genocidal but rather sanitised its crimes with euphemisms like “military operation.”
The BBC, that bastion of cowardly equivocation, refused to call the murderers what they are: terrorists. Instead, they were dignified with the term “militants,” as though they were mere guerrilla fighters rather than rabid butchers. The UN, meanwhile, sighed that Hamas’s actions “did not happen in a vacuum,” a veiled justification for infanticide.
It is worth asking: how do the “pro-Palestinian” activists justify their blind loyalty to Hamas? Does their concern for Palestinian suffering extend to the mothers who are executed for defying Hamas’s brutal theocracy? Do they mourn the young men murdered for the crime of protesting Hamas’s corruption? Do they condemn Hamas for hijacking aid meant for civilians? Of course not. Because to them, Palestinian lives only matter when they can be weaponised against Israel.
A true advocate for Palestinians would demand that Egypt open its borders to allow refugees safe passage. A genuine humanitarian would demand Hamas stop using hospitals as command centres. An honest activist would recognise that the greatest enemy of the Palestinian people is not Israel, but Hamas itself. Yet we hear none of this. Why? Because the so-called “pro-Palestinian” movement is not about saving Palestinians—it is about destroying Jews.
This is a sickness of the mind, as Paul Johnson so aptly put it. Not just a variety of racism, but a pathology—one that manifests in universities, newsrooms, and so-called human rights groups, all singing in unison with Hamas’s genocidal agenda. They bay for Israel’s surrender, knowing full well that Hamas would rebuild and launch another massacre. They demand ceasefires while hostages remain in cages, knowing that Hamas would use the lull to rearm. Their ultimate demand is clear: Israel must be defenceless, must be vulnerable, must—above all—suffer.
Apfel rightly points to Jean-Paul Sartre’s description of the anti-Semite as a murderer who represses his desire to kill but can barely contain it. That is the “pro-Palestinian” movement today: an army of closet Jew-haters, dressed in the language of human rights but salivating at the sight of Jewish coffins.
Hamas itself, meanwhile, is a parody of resistance—an organisation so incompetent that it cannot even safeguard the people under its rule. It murders them, starves them, and exploits their suffering for propaganda. It is a cult of death, whose leaders sit in Qatar’s luxury hotels while the Gazan people rot in ruins. And its cheerleaders in the West are no better—chanting for intifada from the safety of their ivory towers while pretending they have the moral high ground.
The tragedy of Hamas is that it could have built a thriving Palestinian state in Gaza, free from occupation, with resources at its disposal. Instead, it chose war, slaughter, and ideological fanaticism. And for that, it deserves not just condemnation, but unrelenting ridicule. After all, what kind of “resistance” fights from behind children, steals food from its own people, and then hides in tunnels like rats?
The answer is simple: not a resistance, but a disease. One that the world should be working to cure, not legitimise.
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