You Must Denounce Hamas — and Nat Turner, Quanah Parker, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, Spartacus….
When conquerors break people, some break in horrifying ways.
— Why I finished writing this post
If you hate this post, thank a Zionist. I had started it, then set it aside because the subject of rape and massacre is enough to make me hate humanity. I was planning to delete it half-written when someone left a comment with a link to a photo of the naked corpse of a woman ostensibly raped and killed in Hamas’s October 7 attack, and I knew had to finish this.
But first I left this reply to the comment:
Sharing the picture of a dead person is a powerful way to appeal to emotions and a terrible way to appeal to reason. It is the tactic of lynch mobs and explains why so many Zionists are cheering as women and children and non-combatants are being killed by Israel’s bombs at this very moment.
Who has denied that some members of Hamas committed rape and murder? The question is whether Israel has done comparable things while it steals land that the UN gave to Palestine.
The commenter responded with “The answer is no, and certainly not on the scale of what happened on Oct 7.” I replied,
