The Hypocrites Who Condemn Hamas

From “My Life As A Palestinian Fighter

There's a saying within the Resistance, those who are in solidarity with our corpses and not our rockets are hypocrites, and not of us. I think of this often, because it's the default White position. People will vaguely support Palestine, while condemning the actual resistance. The White moderate is still as Martin Luther King described them in 1963,

"I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season." Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.

When people of ill will ask do you condemn Hamas? this is really the most relevant question, though people understandably try to sidestep it for legal reasons. Actual resistance to occupation is illegal under White law, though Hamas has every right to armed resistance under international law. What the White Empire calls the ‘rules-based order’ is precisely the abrogation of international law. They are the masters of misnomers. And too many people live in their empire of illusions. But the cognitive dissonance must certainly be ringing. Doesn't it get tiring being so useless?

Within the White Empire, you might oppose genocide, but you must oppose the resistance. You might oppose racism, but must oppose Chinese and Russians because, uh… reasons. To actually be a good person within White Empire would be treason. It is illegal to support Hamas, you get investigated for even talking to China or Russia, there is real personal danger here. But instead of just shutting up, people keep offering this half-assed support, not for anybody else's benefit, but for their old guilty conscience. As the Resistance says, they are hypocrites, and not of us.

Rather than smoking my own straw man, let me offer an example. Francesca Albanese, UN Something-I-Can't-Spell, speaks eloquently and bravely for the Palestinian people and yet still condemns the Al Aqsa Flood as something ‘tragic and horrible.’ Why? Was the Warsaw Ghetto Rebellion against Nazis tragic and horrible? The occupation is certainly tragic and horrible, but why is resistance also?

Under international law (which she knows) occupied people have every right to resist their occupier. And if we want to talk about killing civilians, it's well documented within 'Israel' that their own Hellfire missiles did the job. Hamas's goal, as they stated quite clearly, was to take hostages to exchange for the over 10,000 Palestinians 'Israel' holds in absolute torture. Responding to the evil of 'Israel', Hamas is actually being quite restrained. But still people like Albanese will support… nothing, while condemning the people actually doing something.

Condemning Hamas is like saying you condemn the Red Army and the Partisans… but support the victims. It's like that meme of a drowning man getting a high-five instead of a hand up. You are, at best, neutral in the time of oppression which is to say, on the side of the oppressors. And you know what? It doesn't even work. For all her troubles—and she has been troubled—Albanese has still been sanctioned by White Empire, even though she tries to keep her condemnation within the White lines. It doesn't matter. They'll persecute you anyways. I don't mean to single out Albanese, she seems like a nice person and has personally sacrificed. I'm just saying that she's embedded in a system of structural racism where the only bad violence is violence against White people, and she participates when she denigrates Hamas.

Me, personally, I'm from the most of the world where Hamas is not a designated terrorist organization and I can support them all I want. I supported Hamas from October 7th and from October 15th really, once I'd had time to read about them. They are incredibly brave people with a coherent ideology and are not racist or scary at all. It's incredible to me that we're supposed to take the word of people that kill children at their day jobs and then rape children on vacation over the people defending their own people with great honor. What are we even talking about? I've seen 'Israel' killing children and bombing hospitals for years, while Hamas bravely lights up tanks and stormtroopers. Why on earth would I condemn them? I'm not worth the dust on a resistance fighter's sandals. At this point, during an active genocide that they're fighting, attacking the Resistance is indefensible. I can understand shutting up because supporting Hamas is illegal where you live, but condemning them? Contemptible.

The Overton Window within the White Empire (barely) includes condemning genocide but you get defenestrated for even thinking about direct action. When people ask do you condemn Hamas? they're really asking what the fuck are you going to do about it? and the answer from ‘moderates’ is not much. This is the hegemonic hypocrisy within White Empire and too many people accept and prop up their hegemon by being such hypocrites, mouthing pious platitudes and spitting on people who actually stand up. This goes for everyplace the Empire is attacking. ‘Moderates’ are full of complicated opinions on Cuba, Iran, Venezuela but cannot take a simple moral stand against evil. Because they're a part of it, and all the hand-wringing can't get the blood out.

White moderates (just don't be White if it bothers you, I don't identify as Brown to put other people down), White people (and people like me applying enwhitening cream) are stuck in this moral wasteland. They can condemn what America does, but not simply condemn America. They can support the idea of resistance, but not any actual resistance. The cognitive dissonance should be ringing so hard blood pours from their ears but, no, these people go on posting. The problem is not really that White moderates won't speak up, it's that they won't shut up.

What are we even talking about? It's been World War III on the Muslim world for 25 years, NATO has been attacking Russia for a decade, Holocausting Gaza for nearly three, and White people still think they can be kinder gentler Nazis. Instead of tearing the United States apart and actually helping, they come out with useless statements about what the people in the concentration camp could do better, which is never good enough. White moderates won't be satisfied until their children are doing land acknowledgments on your graveyard, and lecturing on the subject.

As your grandmama must have told you, if you don't have something good to say about the Resistance, shut the fuck up. There is a great battle between good and evil raging, and you're a fool to take obviously evil people's word on what's what. If you believe the leaders of the White Empire (US, Europe, same shit as Rubio said) after finding out that they personally rape children then I really don't know what to do with you. I'm with the Resistance, and as they say, those who are in solidarity with our corpses and not our rockets are hypocrites, and not of us.