I can appreciate the need for definition, but your standard of requiring a perfectly explicit statement is nonsense. There is no doubting that the ultimate mission of Hamas is the genocide of the Jewish people. If you support Hamas, you are supporting this goal. If you are tearing down posters of kidnapped Jewish children, you support Hamas and demonstrate your utter contempt for the lives of Jews. If you suggest in the slightest way that there was some justification for the October 7 attacks, you support Hamas. If you know that a cease-fire would help Hamas (besides supposedly saving innocent civilians) to continue murdering Jews, you support Hamas.
These are just a few of the common statements made by protestors at so-called “cease fire” rallies. All this is the same as if you would say anything in support of, or apologizing for, Nazi Germany after the gas chambers, the crematoria and the Einsatzgruppen became public knowledge. Facts and statements of intent can be fully established by the unavoidable implications of one’s actions and words.
1st - You are again using words that you intend to mean one thing but which actually mean something else.
justify - “show or prove to be right or reasonable”
If I were to say...”That guy shouldn’t have climbed into the bear cage at the zoo. That is why he is dead today.”...I am not “justifying” the bear attack. I am pointing out the cause of it happening.
It is never “justified” to kill innocent people. It is never “right or reasonable” to kill innocent people.
Not the ones in Israel. Not the ones in Gaza.
2nd - All of the arguments you are making could be made right back at you....
“Israel is killing innocent civilians in Gaza. If you put up posters in NEW YORK CITY of Hamas victims you are trying to drum up US support for the attacks on innocent children in Gaza and you are responsible for genocide.”
“Blacks perform worse on standardized testing. If you support the use of standardized testing then you are racist against blacks.”
Do you see how that works? You sound like a liberal.
Hyper-sensitive people don’t get to construe the meaning of anything they hear to fit their particular grievance complex.