Hi everyone, I've learned that my article for Rolling Stone really, really upsets the anti-Israel fanatics.
So please, don't repost my latest article for @RollingStone, unless you want them to be even angrier 😢
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Iran made a direct hit on a Palestinian hospital.
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Hide them in cemeteries, and cry foul when the cemeteries are destroyed! After taking multiple bodies of deceased Israelis into Gaza following its horrendous October 7th attack, Hamas made the atrocious and despicable decision to hide dozens of them in Palestinian cemeteries in the coastal enclave, particularly in the north. This was immediately picked up by Israeli intelligence and turned what should be the spiritual resting place of the dead into another battlefield of the horrific war that ensued. The IDF, either deliberately, recklessly, due to bad intelligence, or operating with little to no information, went into multiple cemeteries and destroyed them while searching for bodies and remains of deceased Israeli hostages. This included the Al-Falluja Cemetery in Jabalya, northern Gaza, where my dad, Dr. Fouad Alkhatib, was buried – his grave is among those that were desecrated and destroyed by the IDF, ostensibly while searching for the remains of Israeli hostages.
Still, there’s immense irony, symbolism, and meaning to having the body of the last Israeli hostage recovered from a Palestinian cemetery. Who is responsible for placing it there and inviting the devastation of the cemetery? Why did Hamas and PIJ think it was acceptable to place dead Israelis in a sacred space that meant so much for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians? Can dead Palestinians be spared from Hamas’s terrorism? How could two extremist Islamofascist groups tolerate burying a non-Muslim in the heart of a Muslim graveyard, which is governed by strict Sharia rules and requirements?
You can criticize Israel all you want, and hundreds of millions have been for the past two years. But at the end of the day, there is only one, and just a singular party upon which the blame falls squarely for bringing Israeli military occupation and devastation onto Gaza; only one party that permitted itself to operate in schools, hospitals, shelters, tents, displacement zones, used mosques, cemeteries, kindergartens, markets, NGOs, journalists, ambulances, and humanitarian workers to conduct guerilla warfare – and that is Hamas.
That is why it is criminal even to contemplate going easy on the terror group and allowing them the opportunity to be recycled into Gaza’s future. Hamas as a brand must be eliminated, destroyed, annihilated, and prevented from ever operating as a cohesive body, even if its ideology remains, and even if some of its mid and lower-level personnel are somehow rehabilitated.
A Special Russian Truth uncovers how a calculated Soviet disinformation campaign—engineered decades ago by the KGB to demonize Israeli statehood and sow division in the United States—planted the seeds of today’s anti-Israel rhetoric. Through first-person testimony and rigorous historical analysis, this eye-opening short film reveals the antisemitic roots behind familiar tropes, equipping viewers to distinguish propaganda from legitimate critique in the context of today’s conflicts. Featuring first-person testimony from respected historians, academicians, and peace activists from diverse religious and cultural backgrounds, this short film provides viewers with concrete tools to recognize professionally crafted antisemitic tropes and understand their historical context, distinct from legitimate political critique.
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The pro-Hamas movement: For two years, I have warned nonstop about the clear and present danger posed by the normalization of Hamas as a legitimate entity and form of “resistance” that is worthy of support by the “pro-Palestine” movement. I urged academics, journalists, community leaders, and those with any genuine interest in Gaza and the well-being of the Palestinian people to speak out against pro-Hamas chants, behavior, the celebration of October 7 on University campuses and in the streets, and the mainstreaming of a vile, fascistic terror organization that has decimated the people of Gaza for over 20 years. I begged that once Hamas is condemned, isolated, and the humanity of Israeli hostages is recognized, people are free to voice their support for Palestine and condemnation of Israeli actions all they want, but the moral and strategic foundation upon which action must be built should be the rejection of Islamist terror as a tool for the “liberation,” a means for “resistance” or any pursuit of a “free Palestine.”
But no, ‘Ahmed, these are fringes, and support for Palestine is not support for Hamas, you Zionist!’ I challenge anybody who believes this nonsense to go into a mainstream Arab, Muslim, Palestinian, or “pro-Palestine” space in the United States and share a substantive critique and condemnation of Hamas and its vile terrorism. Even if you are actually pro-Palestine, in the overwhelming majority of instances, you will be immediately shut down, attacked, called a Zionist, probably assaulted, or given lectures about Hamas being the legitimate outcome of years of oppression by Israel, which is directly responsible for the terror group’s actions.
Now, everything is out in the open – “say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas here!” Regardless of what you may be protesting, and irrespective of how legitimate you might think it is, framing your actions through the prism of a Jihadi terrorist group has immediately lost you any legitimacy or authority to speak. Worse, look at how some added the Shahada, or Muslim creed, to the Palestinian flag – not because they are religiously pious but because this action is meant to signify that Palestine is an Islamist society and because most Jihadi groups put the Shahada on their flags and banners. In other words, a free Palestine to many is likely going to be a failed Arab-Islamic state that is far from the romanticized notions being promulgated by academics, “pro-Palestine” allies, and hordes of deluded westerners.
Shame on anyone who has continued to be quiet for two years, and is the reason why “pro-Palestine” activism has failed and should be finished and replaced by something entirely new and from scratch.
Credit: @luketress