Silence over Hamas hate shames some of our politicians. By Claire Lehmann.
A mob stood on the steps of the Sydney Opera House aggressively chanting “gas the Jews” one day after the largest mass murder of Jewish civilians since the Holocaust. …
We are so used to minor transgressions being labelled “racist” or “bigoted” that when an outbreak of genocidal racism occurs, we may feel ill-equipped to process it. …
Hamas and the Nazis:
The ideology of Hamas – the terrorist organisation that carried out the attacks on October 7 – fuses Islamism with Nazism, explains [US historian Jeffrey Herf].
In the 1930s and 1940s, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and leader of the Palestinian Arab nationalist movement, Amin al-Husseini, joined forces with the Nazis.
Al-Husseini met with Adolf Hitler and other Nazi officials, and helped establish a Muslim wing of the Schutzstaffel (SS). In a German propaganda newsreel shared by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, you can watch Hitler declare the “struggle against a Jewish homeland in Palestine” was part of the “struggle against the Jews”.
And that when the German army had extended all the way to the Middle East, Germany would issue “an assurance to the Arab world that the hour of liberation was at hand”. It would then be al-Husseini’s “responsibility to unleash the Arab action that he has secretly prepared”. …
Son of Muslim Brotherhood, brother of ISIS:
Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. Today’s Hamas militants are the ideological descendants of al-Husseini, the Nazi collaborator who plotted with Hitler to eradicate the Jews. In its 1988 Charter, Hamas call for the complete destruction of Israel and explicitly rejects any possibility of a two-state solution. …
Some on the Australian left:
This genocidal racism has not stopped some Westerners from sympathising with or even supporting Hamas explicitly. …
As news broke that babies had been massacred at a southern Israeli kibbutzim demonstrators in Melbourne clapped jubilantly when speakers declared “Palestinian liberation” would come “by any means necessary.”
The same group of protesters was filmed chanting “From the River to the Sea”, a rallying cry that derives from Article 12 of the Hamas Covenant asserting that Muslims hold a sacred entitlement to the land stretching from the Mediterranean to the Jordan River. This claim, according to the Covenant, comes with a responsibility to undertake “religious purification” of the territory. In other words – genocide. …
International law acknowledges a nation’s entitlement to self-defence, while explicitly disallowing death squads from orchestrating the killing of civilians and the abduction of vulnerable individuals. When there is a lack of condemnation of such war crimes and a failure to condemn Hamas, it may appear as if the NSW Greens are implicitly endorsing the targeting of Israeli civilians solely because of their nationality.
So much clarity, all of a sudden. Simply shocking. Who could have imagined that a religion founded in 7th century Arabia, but unable to reform itself because fundamentalists always drag it back to its roots, and where the penalty for apostasy is death, could do something so barbaric?
