ofc you can feel however you like about hamas specifically and still be unequivocally on the side of palestinian resistance but talking about hamas like it’s some invasive occupying regime or some inexplicable evil terrorising palestine or even a religious hate group is both racist and completely inane. whatever your opinion on hamas, i urge everyone to actually consider the position of palestinians on the ground–if everyone you loved was killed by an airstrike while the world cheered on, who the fuck wouldn’t join an organisation promising revenge and action, when the alternative is looking down at the barrel if vanishingly short life expectancy amid more airstrikes in an open air prison with a 47% unemployment rate. you might not think that hamas is good or right or correct, but you have to understand it as a response to the situation it exists in or you’ll just end up uncritically accepting the islamophobic propaganda lines being used to fuel a genocide
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you know when irish people were fighting for freedom the rebels were never considered revolutionaries or freedom fighters. we had only ever been called terrorists by the british government, because when you call a people fighting for their rights and their freedoms terrorists you can distance yourself from them. people aren’t fighting because they’ve been radicalised by 800 years of colonialism or 75 years of brutal settler imperialism, they’re fighting because they’re dirty terrorists trying to hurt our democracy and kill our children. and now we don’t have any responsibility to reckon with the years of subjugation and settler violence and attempted genocide, because how can you expect us to deal with terrorists? the same story repeats itself over and over n it’s shocking how people will eat it up every time when it comes to protecting and maintaining western power.
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