Melanie Phillips
JNS, Apr. 3, 2025
“The people protesting on the streets are the same people who, on Oct. 7, poured into Israel across the shattered border fence behind the Hamas stormtroopers and themselves took part in that barbaric orgy of rape, slaughter and kidnapping.”
It is striking, if unsurprising, that the demonstrations against Hamas being mounted by thousands of Gazans have gone almost totally unremarked by the media and supposedly pro-Palestinian supporters in Britain and America.
The protests have been going on for several days. On Wednesday, hundreds of Palestinian Arabs rallied in Beit Lahiya in the northern Gaza Strip, chanting “Hamas out” and “Enough death.” This was despite some high-profile killings of protesters by Hamas designed to put the uprising down.
Abdulrahman Sha’aban Abu Samra was shot dead by Hamas while waiting in line for flour in Deir al-Balah. Uday Al-Raba’i had denounced Hamas on social media and in a coffee shop. According to Palestinian Media Watch, Hamas operatives dragged him alive through the streets tied to the back of a car and then dumped him on his family to die.
This uprising has been almost totally ignored in the West because—just as with the Hamas-led atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023—nothing can be allowed to challenge the “progressive” narrative that the bad guys are the Israelis, that the Palestinian Arabs are their victims and that Hamas is an understandable resistance movement.
Of course, this silence over the protests also illuminates the rank hypocrisy of Western liberals, whose purported concern for the oppressed of Gaza is thus shown to be bogus. What drives them isn’t compassion but hatred of Israel—a hatred so obsessional and unhinged that they blank out the reality that’s staring them in the face.
The reason for such willful blindness is that, for such liberals, their view of themselves as good people is wrapped up in supporting the Palestinian Arabs as a people fighting their Israeli oppressors. To acknowledge that the Gazans may actually be oppressed by their own people threatens to destroy their entire progressive identity. So these developments must be ignored. ….SOURCE