The Dangerous Ignorance Fueling Chaos Around the World
Some people already forgot 911. Some have forgotten the Holocaust.
Chaos has erupted on college campuses across New York and other states transforming once-quiet sceneries into battlegrounds of ideology. Palestinian protesters, students draped in keffiyehs, clutching megaphones, and overflowing with righteous anger, have flooded the streets. Their banners snap in the wind, their chants echo through lecture halls, and their disruptions, blocked pathways, silenced speakers, skirmishes with police, have turned academic sanctuaries into scenes of mayhem. They proclaim a noble cause: justice for a people long denied their rights, a stand against oppression inscribed in decades of conflict. Their passion is undeniable, their energy a force that commands attention.
Yet beneath this zeal lurks a troubling question that demands reckoning: Do these young advocates truly comprehend the movement they champion, or are they merely swept up in a tide of emotion, amplifying an ideology they scarcely understand? The Hamas charter, the foundational text of the group they implicitly or explicitly endorse, reveals a chilling disconnect between their professed values and the reality they support, a disconnect that warrants a deeper, more critical exploration.
The Hamas Charter: A Blueprint for Hate, Unpacked
To understand the subject, one must first confront the Hamas charter, a document penned in 1988 and left unrevised for 18 years, serving as the straightforward voice of the group’s worldview. The Hamas Charter/Covenant, born from the Muslim Brotherhood’s uncompromising faith of Islam, it frames the Israeli-Palestinian conflict not as a political argument open to negotiation but as an eternal, divinely mandated war. Article 11 declares Palestine an Islamic *waqf*, a sacred inheritance entrusted to Muslims until Judgment Day, accepting no compromises, even by Arab leaders, a betrayal of faith. Article 13 doubles down, rejecting peace talks and international summits as “a waste of time,” asserting that “the Palestinian problem can only be solved by Jihad.” This is no mere call to arms; it’s an explicit dismissal of coexistence, wrapped in religious authoritarianism. The charter’s opening quote from Hassan Al-Bana, the Brotherhood’s founder, sets the tone: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.” The intent is clear, peace is not an option, only erasure and the eventual Caliphate.
But, the charter’s venom runs deeper, plunging into anti-Semitism that echoes history’s darkest chapters. Article 7 cites a hadith with genocidal relish: “The Day of Judgment will not come about until Moslems fight Jews and kill them. Then, the Jews will hide behind rocks and trees, and the rocks and trees will cry out: ‘O Moslem, there is a Jew hiding behind me, come and kill him.’” This is not resistance rhetoric—it’s a fantasy of cosmic extermination where even nature turns collaborator. The document leans heavily on The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious anti-Semitic forgery, to cast Jews as puppeteers of global calamity. Article 22 spins wild conspiracies, accusing Jews of orchestrating the French Revolution, World War I, and even the creation of the Freemasons and Rotary Clubs, claims that mirror centuries-old metaphors of Jewish domination. Article 29 compares Jewish actions to Nazi crimes, a grotesque irony given the charter’s own eliminationist ideology.
This ideology isn’t abstract, it’s actionable. In the 1990s, Hamas pioneered suicide bombings, turning words into carnage. The 1996 Jerusalem bus bombings killed 45 civilians in a single month; the 2002 Passover massacre at a Netanya hotel claimed 30 lives during a Seder; the 2001 Dolphinarium disco attack in Tel Aviv slaughtered 21 teens, mostly Russian immigrants. These weren’t military strikes but deliberate assaults on civilians, Jewish and Arab alike, justified as divine retribution. The brutality reflects the charter’s core: a rejection of humanity for those deemed enemies. Then came October 7, 2023 and the murder of over 1200 Jewish men, women, and babies.
Beyond violence, Hamas envisions a cultural and educational stranglehold to perpetuate its mission. Article 15, quoting jihadist Abdallah Azzam, demands that every Muslim, men, women, children, join the fight, calling for an education system stripped of Western “materialism” and rooted in Qur’anic dogma. This isn’t enlightenment, it’s indoctrination, a stark contrast to the academic freedom these campus protesters likely want. Article 19 outlines a “cultural offensive,” wielding literature, music, and media to mobilize Palestinians and the Muslim world for a relentless war of “liberation.” Even Hamas’s charities, often praised as aid for Gaza’s poor, double as fronts, funneling cash to militants and attack planners, a fact corroborated by Israeli, American, and European intelligence. Article 27 tolerates secular allies like the PLO only as a temporary expedient, not a shared dream. Hamas’s ultimate goal is a theocracy where dissent is heresy, mercy is weakness, and purity reigns. This is no liberation movement; it’s a regression to a medieval ethos of domination.
Echoes of History: Hitler’s Playbook in Hamas’s Hands
Have these entitled student protestors and paid activists totally forgotten the Holocaust and industrial murder? Have they not seen the photographs of humiliation and suffering? Where is their human compassion for atrocities that rise above the reasoning imaginations of man? Where is their sense of history and the lessons to be drawn from that history?
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The charter’s parallels to Adolf Hitler’s ideology are too stark to ignore, offering a historical lens that amplifies its menace. On September 16, 1919, a young Hitler wrote to Adolf Gemlich, a fellow soldier, laying out his embryonic anti-Semitism. He branded Jews a “foreign race,” a “racial tuberculosis” poisoning Germany through their supposed control of finance and economics, socialism, and democracy, claims disconnected from the reality of Jewish loyalty in World War I. This seed of hatred bloomed into the Holocaust, epitomized by places like Auschwitz-Birkenau and Dachau. Operation Entefest or Harvest Festival, in November 1943 in Poland’s Lublin District, killed 42,000 Jewish prison laborers who were forced to dig their own graves, then machine-gunned en masse to avenge and deter uprisings like at Warsaw and Sobibor. At Majdanek Death Camp, waltzes blared over loudspeakers to mask the screams, a grim efficiency born of dehumanization.
Hamas’s charter mirrors this playbook. Both ideologies scapegoat Jews with fabricated threats. Hitler’s “stab-in-the-back” myth finds a cousin in Article 22’s tales of Jewish world domination. Both distort history to fuel hatred, ignoring coexistence (e.g., Jewish contributions to Weimar Germany or pre-1948 Palestine). Both demand education as a weapon: Nazi schools churned out anti-Semitic propaganda, much as Article 15 seeks to mold minds for jihad. And both pursue annihilation, whether in gas chambers, suicide vests, or direct murderous attacks as a purifying end. The Sbarro pizzeria bombing of 2001, where a Hamas operative shredded a family-friendly restaurant with nails and bolts, killing 15, and the October 7th massacre, echoes the indiscriminate slaughter of TheHarvest Festival of 1943. Method differs; intent does not. History warns that prejudice thrives on lies and magnified fears—a formula Hamas masters with apocalyptic glee.
The Protesters: Zeal Without Knowledge?
Back on New York’s campuses, the protesters cast themselves as crusaders for justice, heirs to civil rights legacies. Their signs denounce Israeli settlements, Gaza’s blockade, and military incursions, grievances rooted in a conflict with real complexities. Their outrage, stoked by images of Palestinian suffering, is visceral. But, is it informed? The Hamas charter isn’t obscure—it’s online, its English translation a Google search away. Yet how many have read it? How many realize the group they amplify sees Jews as subhuman, peace as betrayal, and theocracy as destiny?
The irony is glaring. These students likely decry bigotry at home, marching against racism and advocating for inclusivity. They critique power with a sharpness honed in seminars and X threads. Yet the charter they indirectly bolster, via flags, slogans, or silence, revels in exclusion. Article 15’s educational overhaul would appall their professors or maybe not, replacing inquiry with dogma. The Haifa bus bombing of 2003, which killed 17, including school kids, muddies their “resistance” narrative, Hamas’s bombs don’t spare Arab lives. Their chant, “From the river to the sea,” ties to a Hamas vision of a Jew-free Palestine; do they grasp that? Some might be ideologues, knowingly backing Hamas’s ends-over-means logic. But, most seem caught in the passionate, yet uninformed, romanticizing of the cause they haven’t dissected historically and morally.
Wrestling with Counterarguments: Context vs. Ideology
Fairness demands engaging their perspective. They have rights: to speak, to assemble, to critique, enshrined in the First Amendment. The Palestinian struggle, displacement since 1948, poverty in Gaza, occupation in the West Bank, is real and wrenching. Israel’s actions, like settlement growth or the 2014 Gaza war (2,200 dead, per UN figures), spark legitimate fury. Some argue Hamas’s charter is a distraction from this broader context; others say their protests target policy, not Jews, and conflating them is unjust. A few might cast Hamas as a desperate response to oppression, its rhetoric secondary to survival.
These points do not hold weight. Context matters, but the charter isn’t a footnote. It’s Hamas’s DNA, guiding its rule since seizing Gaza in 2007. Its anti-Semitism isn’t peripheral, it’s baked into every mention of Jews or Israel. One can oppose Israeli policy without waving Hamas’s flag, The 2001 Sbarro attack, the 2014 rocket barrages, or the October 7 Massacre aren’t “resistance” but terror, undermining Palestinian moral clarity. Free speech isn’t a free pass; amplifying hate carries a cost. And, while oppression breeds radicalism, it doesn’t excuse genocidal ideology; Hitler, too, rose from Germany’s post-WWI ashes. The charter’s theocratic vision clashes with these students’ progressive ideals. Concern for Palestinians shouldn’t mean ignoring that.
Conclusion: A Plea for Clarity
So where does this leave us? Are these protesters lifting a torch for humanity, or unwittingly fanning a flame of hate? The Hamas charter unveils a doctrine of annihilation, not liberation. A ghostly, horrible history of the Holocaust knows well, from Majdanek’s pits to Auschwitz’s ovens. Article 7’s rocks and trees still beckon, but the blood of the NAZI Harvest Festival, Hamas’s bombings, and massacres screams a warning: zeal without scrutiny courts disaster. Passion isn’t enough; outrage isn’t reason.
The path forward is education, reading the charter, not just newsfeeds; seeing the whole, not just the parts that fit. These students must ask: What do they stand for? Justice, or extermination? Their voices can shape futures, but only if they heed the quiet, damning truth beneath the noise and the historical record of the industrial killing of the Holocaust.
Call to Action: University Professors, especially History professors! Teach truth not political propaganda. Don’t be another catastrophe like the main stream media. Remember Truth is the way forward.
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