Maybe Hamas doesn’t have a problem with Jews. It’s just Zionists.
It must be true. After all, some of the protest encampments had a Passover seder. Some Jewish students and faculty joined the protests. Some were even organized by Jewish Voice for Peace. (Interesting fact: JVP’s second largest donor in the period 2019-2021, to the tune of $340,000, was the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.)
This article is part of our series, Radical Listening — Ideas for Productive Conversations About Israel and Being Jewish.
Anti-semitic tropes in the Hamas Covenant
Judge for yourself. Article 28, to take one example, makes wild claims, including that alcoholism and drug addiction are integral tools of the “Zionist invasion.” Jews, oops, Zionists, are behind the Freemasons and Rotary clubs. If this sounds familiar, it is. It’s one of the oldest antisemitic tropes.
The Zionist invasion is a vicious invasion. It does not refrain from resorting to all methods, using all evil and contemptible ways to achieve its end. It relies greatly in its infiltration and espionage operations on the secret organizations it gave rise to, such as the Freemasons, The Rotary and Lions clubs, and other sabotage groups. All these organizations, whether secret or open, work in the interest of Zionism and according to its instructions. They aim at undermining societies, destroying values, corrupting consciences, deteriorating character and annihilating Islam. It is behind the drug trade and alcoholism in all its kinds so as to facilitate its control and expansion.
Don’t believe a Zionist?
Don’t believe anything that you read or hear from a Zionist? Go straight to the source. The original Hamas Covenant in English is available from the The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School Library: Hamas Covenant 1988 (yale.edu).Are Jews capitalists and communists?
The Jews are wealth-amassing materialists: “With their money, they took control of the world media…”
But the Jews are also communists: “With their money… They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions… “
In Article 22, Hamas drops all pretense of opposition to Zionism and comes out into the open with wild anti-Jewish claims. For the historically challenged, The First Zionist Congress was held in 1897. The French Revolution unfolded between 1789 and 1799, more than 100 years before the Zionist movement was launched.
They strived to amass great and substantive material wealth which they devoted to the realization of their dream. With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there.
Were Jews behind World War I and II? All the wars?
One of the lessons of October 7th is to listen to Hamas., listen to Hezbollah, and listen to the kleptomaniacs running the Palestinian Authority. They write what they believe. People who support Hamas should listen to their fantastical claims and then decide where they stand.
They were behind World War I, when they were able to destroy the Islamic Caliphate… They were behind World War II…There is no war going on anywhere, without having their finger in it.
A call for genocide against all Jews?
Writing in The Atlantic in 2014, Jeffery Goldberg described the Hamas Covenant as “a frank and open call for genocide, embedded in one of the most thoroughly antisemitic documents you’ll read this side of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
Was Goldberg right? How does this affect your position?
The full text of What Would Hamas Do If It Could Do Whatever It Wanted? is available online.
