Why do people villainize Hamas just for trying to defend themselves?

(4) Quora:  "Stop thinking of Hamas as a plucky band of freedom fighters taking on an evil empire.

"In reality, Hamas are radical Islamists — extremely violent, misogynistic, fascistic, fanatically antisemitic, and obsessed with war.

 . . ."When Hamas talk about “liberating Palestine”, they don’t mean ending Israel’s occupation of the West Bank or its blockade of the Gaza Strip. They mean the genocidal elimination of Jews in Israel (“Palestine”) and the replacement of Israel itself with a medieval Islamic theocracy.

"Politically, Hamas are essentially Muslim supremacists, or Arab Nazis. Their primary goal is a genocide of Israeli Jews.

"They even have an equivalent to the Hitler Youth Movement. They hold summer camps for children where they literally learn how to hate and how to kill Jews. This youngster was interviewed at one such camp:

"Hamas’s mission, backed by Iran, is to destroy Israel and replace it with an Islamic state. But like other Islamist regimes, they also have zero tolerance for “Western” ideas like liberty, democracy, free speech, the right to protest, women’s rights, etc. catching on within their own population. Gazan citizens are suffering more under Hamas than they ever did under Israeli occupation. If they question Hamas’s policies, men will come to break their arms and legs. Those who oppose the cause of Jew-genocide are likely to be executed in public.

"People don’t “villianize” Hamas. Hamas fighters are no different from those al-Qaeda terrorists who flew planes full of passengers into American buildings, or any of the other Islamists responsible for countless atrocities in Russia (Moscow theatre, Beslan school), the UK (London Underground, Ariana Grande concert), France, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

"Too many people imagine that Hamas are something like the cool rebel heroes in Star Wars. But a much more accurate analogy would be the Borg in Star Trek, a horde of dehumanised drones out to destroy and/or ‘assimilate’ all other races into their hive mind. The difference, though, is that this is no movie; Hamas are far worse than any villain Hollywood could imagine."

Jewish family targeted by anti-Semitic abuse in New Jersey's American Dream Mall over teen daughter's IDF jacket say 'dozens' of bystanders stood by just WATCHING as they were attacked | Daily Mail Online

. . ."Rez attributed the incident to the 'Free Palestine' movement, which she said 'has generated so much hatred and division in America that a Jewish family can't walk through a shopping mall without being accosted.'

"The video of the incident posted on X shows the confrontation already underway, with a young man and woman screaming at the family. 

" 'Leave her alone, leave her alone!' the Jewish father is heard saying as he steps in between the Palestinian supporters and his family. 

"The Jewish mother, who appears to be filming the incident, is heard saying: 'You're attacking me, you attacked me and dropped my phone!'

"The female aggressor responds: 'You're recording me without my permission! It's free Palestine 'til I f***ing die b***h! Free Palestine 'til I f***ing die b***h! Free Palestine, you should be embarrassed you're supporting genocide!'

"The Jewish father is seen herding his family away from the abusive rant, and shouting back 'What genocide?' ". . .

Women raped by Hamas were found with nails driven into their thighs and groin and were passed around by terrorists who slaughtered them after or even during gang-rape, horrifying new witness accounts of October 7 reveal | Daily Mail Online  "New devastating accounts of sexual violence and torture enacted on defenceless Israeli women by Hamas terrorists amid their brutal October 7 attacks have emerged. 

"Images shown to the New York Times by Israeli authorities showed a woman who had dozens of nails driven into her thighs and genitals in a savage example of mutilation, while other clips displayed the corpses of soldiers and civilians alike who had been either shot or stabbed in the groin.

"Another dark image dubbed 'the woman in the black dress' showed the corpse of an Israeli later identified as Gal Abdush."

Much more at this site that Jew-attackers should be required to see.

Harvard President Claudine Gay's Resignation Reveals DEI Rot

 Daily Signal  

While neither Gay nor Harvard acknowledged the scandals that led to Gay’s resignation, the event demonstrates the impact of conservative media, even as the Left dominates so many of America’s institutions." 

Steve Kelley - Wed, Jan 3, 2024

"Claudine Gay ended her tenure Tuesday as the shortest president in the history of Harvard University, yet her resignation statement didn’t acknowledge the scandals that led to her ouster—instead suggesting that racism was to blame.

"The incident arguably illustrates the effectiveness of conservative critics in drawing attention to Gay’s many scandals, and the fecklessness of a university so rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion that it refuses to acknowledge the ideological roots of the scandal." . . .

. . ."Furthermore, Greene and Eden noted that “Gay’s institutional rise was marked by a pattern of destroying the careers of genuinely brilliant black scholars who had the stature to point out her mediocrity.” They wrote that Gay led the charge to undermine black Harvard economist Roland Fryer and black Harvard Law professor Ronald Sullivan, who had agreed to serve as an attorney to help defend Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein from sexual assault charges.

"Reporters and analysts went through works Gay’s published work, finding example after example of text blocks apparently lifted from other writers without attribution. The steady drip-drip-drip of information, coupled with conservative outlets such as The Daily Signal demanding answers and repeatedly raising the issue of DEI in education, appears to have led Harvard to reconsider.

"These examples led Greene and Eden, among many others, to conclude that Gay had been an “affirmative action pick,” an example of the university’s prioritizing goals for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” over scholarly merit.

Human Rights Groups' Hypocrisy on Hamas Rape

 Rafael Medoff - The Lid (lidblog.com)

"There was a time when self-described human rights advocates such as Samantha Power, Human Rights Watch, and Amnesty International earned the international community’s respect for their defense of the innocent and the oppressed. But they have forfeited that respect by failing to defend the human right of Jewish women to not be raped."

"Rape during the Rwanda genocide? Outrageous. Rape during the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia? Abhorrent. Rape by Hamas terrorists? Not worthy of comment.

   " That’s the troubling position taken by Samantha Power, a senior official in the Obama and Biden administrations who has built her career on her concern for victims of genocide, sexual atrocities, and other human rights abuses." . . .

"Reuters, it happens, has also done some important reporting on Hamas rapes of Israeli Jewish women. As early as October 15—eight days after the pogrom—Reuters reported that Israeli forensic experts “found multiple signs of torture, rape and other atrocities” among the victims of Hamas. 

    "Two days later, Reuters quoted Israeli first responders describing evidence of rape on some of the bodies they found. Subsequent Reuters dispatches cited a senior Israeli police official describing eyewitness and forensic evidence of “sexual assaults” (Nov.14) and “evidence about sexual violence” with the sentence, “Reuters has seen photos corroborating some of those accounts” (November 28 and November 30). But for some reason, Power did not regard those Reuters reports as “important” enough for her to recommend.

   "Power’s silence on Hamas’s rapes is glaring because she presents herself as a champion of human rights. But she is not alone in turning a blind eye to the sexual violence of October 7. Sadly, she is typical of the painfully slow, in some cases non-existent, response of the human rights community on this issue.

   " Human Rights Watch issued fifty-one press releases about Gaza in the first eight weeks following the Hamas invasion. They were loaded with accusations about Israeli “war crimes,” with just brief, passing references to the Hamas massacres. " . . .

CNN anchor assures viewers that Claudine Gay did not plagiarize, she’s only accused of ‘copying other people’s writings without attribution’

 Olivia Murray - American Thinker   "If only there were a word for such “sloppy” work in academia when someone takes another’s writing and passes it off as their own….

"Alas though, the mystery word didn’t come to CNN analyst Matt Egan, but despite the fact that he couldn’t quite articulate it, he does know that what Claudine Gay allegedly did, is not plagiarism. See this clip below, from a segment that aired last night in the wake of Gay’s disgraced resignation:

Bonkers explanation from CNN reporter Matt Egan on the Harvard plagiarism scandal:

"We should note that Claudine Gay has not been accused of stealing anyone's ideas in any of her writings. She has been accused of sort of more like copying other peoples writings without… pic.twitter.com/ONArO75NLE

— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) January 2, 2024

" (He should have just taken a cue from his colleagues and referred to Gay’s actions as “mostly honest plagiarism.”) [That would be stealing from MSNBC's Ali Veldshi.]

"She’s not a thief, she just took intellectual property that didn’t belong to her.

"She’s not a cheater, she just passed off “other people’s” work as her own—as Egan says, this is a case of “sloppy attribution” and nothing more.

"She’s not a fraud, she just took credit for somebody else’s academic accomplishments.

"(Mind you, at this point, the alleged plagiarism violations now number more than 50.)

"What’s really ridiculous though is that apparently Gay’s resignation does not mean her departure, and as reported by Fox News, she is set to continue as a fixture at the university and return to faculty duties—but isn’t that just carte blanche to students who wish to cheat in her classes?" . . .

Rearranging Chairs On The Sinking Academic Ship – Claudine Gay Is Gone, But The DEI Problems Remain (legalinsurrection.com)    . . ."Claudine Gay had no choice but to resign, she had lost all credibility and was damaging Harvard’s brand. She would have presided over a zombie presidency.

"I previously wrote that I thought it would be better for the country if she stayed in the position, to keep the focus on the DEI ideological rot that lifted her into the presidency and which she championed, It’s important to Harvard that its brand survive Claudine Gay. It’s important to America that it doesn’t.

I don’t care about the “Harvard” brand, which signifies the smugness, classism, and elitism that makes me want to puke. It’s not just the Harvard brand under pressure, most of the ‘elite’ colleges and universities, particularly the Ivy League, are damaged by their reactions to Hamas’ October 7 massacre. How bad the damage is and how long it lasts remains to be seen, but it’s not a bad thing if it is deserved – and in most cases it is.

Academia has been corrupted and hollowed out by the rot caused by the DEI agenda, which elevates group identity over the individual, and skin color and physical appearance over merit. It’s also a part of why “The anti-American activists are the anti-Capitalist activists are the anti-Israel activists”." . . .

Lady DEI quits

  Don Surber

"This makes me happy because Gay’s departure may very well sound the death toll for the racist and sexist Diversity, Equity and Inclusion movement — DEI — that uses race and sex to promote division, exclusion and intolerance in the workplace."

"NBC reported, “Harvard University President Claudine Gay resigned Tuesday after facing intense scrutiny for equivocal testimony she gave at a congressional hearing on campus anti-Semitism as well as allegations of plagiarism in her academic work.” "Unlike the Flintstones, Harvard won’t have a Gay old time. "What do you know? I was wrong. I figured her sex and color made her invulnerable but it turns out that years of plagiarism and her tolerance for anti-Semitism caught up with her. "I delight in knowing that Gay is now the poster child of affirmative action in which an unqualified person gets the job over a qualified person because of race or sex — or in her case, both. "How’d she get the job in the first place? "Glenn Reynolds wrote, “Not-so-great people tend to choose not-so-great people. In this, Harvard is like so many of our institutions, in and out of academia. If the best people aren’t getting to the top — if, in fact, the people at the top are often the worst people and are consistently mediocre — then your selection process is at fault. And if you don’t want to change the selection process, then you’re happy having your institutions run by bad leaders, with the inevitable results. That’s where we are all across America today.” "That’s not BS. I had a boss I didn’t like (which narrows it down to every other boss I ever had) who said the secret to his success was hiring smart people. Well, he was a dummy but his executive editor and his managing editor went on to become corporate CEOs and his editorial page editor went on to become a publisher of a paper twice the circulation of the Daily Mail." . . .