One of the repeated claims made by those on the left has been that just as being anti-Zionist doesn’t make leftists antisemitic, supporting Palestinians doesn’t make you pro-Hamas. It’s a defensible enough statement on the surface but tends to collapse under any degree of scrutiny, particularly when you note polling showing that 53% of Palestinians supported Hammas as recently as 2021. But even though they’ve set up this little motte and bailey defense for themselves sometimes elements on the left forget that the actual support of Hamas is supposed to be sotto voce and go right ahead and say the quiet part out loud, as happened at a meeting of the Oakland City Council on Monday.
Last night the Oakland City Council voted on a resolution to call for a ceasefire.
A city council member tried to insert language condemning Hamas.
This was the reaction… pic.twitter.com/r7aTb2mkrQ
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) November 28, 2023
Here we get such stunning lines as ‘Israel murdered their own people on October 7th’, ‘Calling Hamas a terrorist organization is ridiculous, racist, and plays into genocidal propaganda’, and ‘I support the right of Palestinians to resist occupation, including…
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