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Source: https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/06/26/the-hamasniks-are-coming-to-power/
The Hamasniks Are Coming to Power
(Spiked-UK) Brendan O'Neill - It's good to give people the benefit of the doubt. But there's one mob I'll never do that for - the 8 October people. These are the people who marched against Israel before the blood of Hamas's pogrom was even dry. The people who were on the streets calling the Jewish state a Nazi regime before it had even counted its dead. Unbelievably, one of these lowlifes now looks set to get a seat in the U.S. Congress. On 8 October 2023, Israelophobe Darializa Avila Chevalier joined a mob in Times Square who were screaming blue murder about the Jewish nation. As Jews in Israel were still succumbing to the wounds inflicted on them by Hamas, as Israeli women were still reeling from Hamas's sexual atrocities, these demonstrators were all but celebrating. The mob chanted for the destruction of Israel, all the way "from the river to sea" - echoing the ideology of the Jew-killers who had just invaded Israel. In response to the storm over her 8 October behavior, Ms. Chevalier says she knew there would be an "outsized reaction" in response to Hamas's antisemitic terror. Imagine hearing about the rape and murder of Jews and thinking: "Oh shit, how are the Jews going to respond?" Imagine hearing of the worst pogrom in 80 years and saying: "I hope the victims of this fascist slaughter don't overreact." It is the very definition of moral depravity. These weren't "pro-Palestinian" rallies - they were pro-pogrom rallies. It was as horrific as if people in NYC and London had poured on to the streets to whoop for Kristallnacht. Ms. Chevalier was a co-founder of Columbia University Apartheid and Divest, a whackjob outfit that gushed over Yahya Sinwar, the chief architect of the Jew slaughter of 7 October. It hailed him as a "hero of the revolution" and called on Columbia students to "reflect on how we can make ourselves more like him." These were the Hamasniks who saw in Hamas's savagery the sexiness of purpose and agency. Who willfully mistook Hamas's imperious barbarism on behalf of the Islamic Republic for an act of "anti-imperialism." Who viewed the murder of those "settler-colonial" Jews as an act of decolonization. And now the Hamasniks are coming to power.