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Source: https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/20261/who-supports-hamas
Who Supports Hamas?
(Gatestone Institute) Alan Dershowitz - The main groups that comprise the bulk of organizers and demonstrators who have supported the Hamas barbarism against Israel include the same radical groups that organized the pro-Hamas demonstrations before Israel went into Gaza. Recall that these protests began before Israel counterattacked against Hamas. They were in full bloom on Oct. 8, even while the bodies of 1,200 murdered Israelis were still being gathered and counted. They are not demonstrations against what Israel does; they are protests against what Israel is, namely the democratic nation-state of the Jewish people. These well-organized and externally-funded demonstrations are directed as much against the U.S. and its values as against Israel. Without the useful idiot students who join any protest they think is directed against "colonialists" and "oppressors," these demonstrations would be relatively small and limited to long-term professional haters of Jews and America. The media insists on calling these protests "pro-Palestinian" because it sounds indelicate to say "pro-Hamas." Yet there is nothing to indicate how the Palestinians would actually be helped by the disappearance of Israel and leaving them to the tender mercies of a corrupt, repressive state. Where are the calls for anything that would actually help the Palestinians or make their lives better: freedom of speech, equal justice under the law, freedom of the press, better job opportunities, and an end to government corruption and abuse? The writer is professor emeritus at Harvard Law School.