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First, You Condemn Terrorism Without Exception
It isn’t difficult.
The gruesome and barbaric terrorist attack last week on Israel by the forces of Hamas was met with horror around the globe.
Yet despite the terrible nature of the attack on Israeli civilians — innocent men, women, and children — and the fact that many of the terrorists photographed, recorded, and in some cases, even live-streamed their acts of mass murder and destruction — not everyone was ready to condemn Hamas.
Even after the hostage videos began, after Israel made every attempt to provide a safe corridor for Palestinians to flee the Israeli counterattack and Hamas made every effort to prevent them from doing so, cheerleaders for Hamas are still proliferating.
And vocal.
“Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine,” began a letter from a group of Harvard Law students published the day after the attack. “We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence.”
“Today’s events did not occur in a vacuum,” wrote the students. “For the last two decades, millions of Palestinians in Gaza have been forced to live in an open-air prison. Israeli officials promise to ‘open the gates of hell,’ and the massacres in Gaza have…