CELEBRATING EVIL: Sick celebration of "Palestinian" Islamic Oct 7 atrocious attacks

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Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank Celebrate on October 7, Hand Out Sweets, Fire Guns in the Air, following Hamas's Invasion and Massacre in the Gaza Envelope #Palestinians #Hamas #Gaza #Israel.
Oct 29, 2023
https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/1718530441412551030

The Evil Ideas Behind October 7.
Mike Cosper.
The Hamas attacks in Israel have a grotesque ideological history and deserve unflinching moral judgment.
March 2024.

...Knowing this makes sense of some of the more incomprehensible scenes from October 7. For instance, while the barbarism of the attacks shocked the world’s conscience, it was greeted on many Palestinian streets with joy. Many ordinary citizens—not militants—joined in the desecration of corpses in Gaza.

Then there’s the phone call and the mother’s response. Ideology tells a story that dehumanizes all Israelis..

Report: Terrorist who boasted of killing 10 Israelis on Oct. 7 eliminated.
Recordings revealed Mahmoud Afana bragging to his parents about the killings from inside Kibbutz Mefalsim, describing the victims and his actions in detail.
Noa Lutsky | published:09.06.25.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1dmcak9ll

“I’m speaking to you from a Jewish woman’s phone, I killed her and her husband. With my own hands I killed 10,” Afana told his father in the recording. Investigators later confirmed that the phone Afana used belonged to one of the victims, which was recovered in the Gaza border area. On the phone, authorities found the full recording of the call between Afana and his family while he was inside Gaza.

Afana told his father he was speaking from Kibbutz Mefalsim. “Open my WhatsApp now and see all the dead. See how many I killed with my own hands. Your son killed Jews,” he said. His father replied: “May God protect you.”

He continued, speaking directly to his father: “Father, 10 with my own hands. I’m inside Mefalsim, I killed 10. Their blood is on my hands. Put Mother on.” His mother responded: “Oh my son, may God keep you safe.” Afana pressed on: “By God, 10 with my own hands. I felt them with my own hands.” His mother answered: “May God bring you back in peace.” Afana added: “Father, check WhatsApp, I want to make you a live broadcast from inside Mefalsim.”

Pro-Palestinian rally met by Israel supporters in Midtown as Hochul slams ‘abhorrent’ demonstration after Hamas attack.
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, organized by the Democratic Socialists of America, rallied Sunday in the Big Apple — stomping on and burning the Israeli flag — as Islamic terrorists in the Gaza Strip continued their assault on the Jewish state.
One attendee in the pro-Palestinian camp was pictured holding up an image of a swastika on their phone — a day after 700 Jews were slaughtered by Hamas.
By Jared Downing and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon
Published Oct. 8, 2023.
https://nypost.com/2023/10/08/nyc-pro-palestinian-rally-slammed-as-abhorrent-as-hamas-attacks-israel/

People 'celebrate' Hamas attack in London
A video has been shared on social media appearing to show people in London celebrating the attack on Israel by Hamas.
Oct 8, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gw-vdw4JoPE

‘Palestine is ours, ours, ours’: PA schools celebrate Oct. 7
The P.A. curriculum is replete with antisemitism, incitement to violence, demonization of Israel and the promotion of jihad, IMPACT-se said.
(Children sang at a rally to celebrate the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre, at the Azzun Elementary School for Boys in Qalqilya. Source: Facebook).
Nov. 24, 2023.
https://www.jns.org/israel-news/palestine-is-ours-ours-ours-pa-schools-celebrate-oct-7

White House Disavows U.S. Islamic Group After Leader’s Oct. 7 Remarks.
The director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a speech that he was “was happy to see” Palestinians break out of Gaza on the day Hamas attacked Israel.
The New York Times. Dec 8, 2023.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/08/us/politics/white-house-cair-nihad-awad.html

Revealed: Dozens of Palestinian diplomats celebrated October 7.
Ambassador Dennis Ross told the JC that this was evidence that the PA is adopting the ideas and rhetoric of Hamas in a bid for domestic relevance.
By Jane Prinsley.
August 29, 2024.
Scores of Palestinian diplomats at the United Nations, across Europe and around the world celebrated the attack on Israel on October 7, compared Israel to the Nazis or made other disturbing statements, the JC can reveal.
https://archive.is/2024.08.30-125816/https://www.thejc.com/news/world/inside-the-battle-for-control-of-hungarys-orthodox-jewish-establishment-q6l1ujff

Students for Justice in Palestine Chapters Celebrate 10/7 Anniversary on Campuses Across US With Terror-Glorifying Posts.
October 8, 2024.
This week, on the first anniversary of the October 7th massacre, the Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) by CAM documented posts from Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Faculty and Staff for Justice in Palestine (FJP) chapters on dozens of campuses across the America that violated Meta’s community standards prohibiting the glorification of U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOS).
https://combatantisemitism.org/studies-reports/students-for-justice-in-palestine-chapters-celebrate-10-7-anniversary-with-terror-glorifying-posts/

Dancing on the rooftops.
Browsing Palestinian media channels on Oct. 7 Remembrance Day revealed a bitter truth we must internalize: There can be no compromise between our narrative and theirs. If we value life, it's better to live by the sword than with the sword of Damocles hanging over us.
By Dror Eydar. Published on 10-08-2024 16:11 Last modified: 10-08-2024 17:22
https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/dancing-on-the-rooftops/

Polls: It’s not just Hamas – it’s all Palestinians. 98% said Oct. 7 events “made them proud”
Itamar Marcus
Oct. 7, 2024
https://palwatch.org/page/35535

Hamas celebrates two years since October 7, calls terror attack a ‘glorious day’
The Hamas terror organization shared a statement celebrating the two-year mark since the October 7 attacks, with an AI video that showed Yahya Sinwar and footage from the terror attack.
Oct 7, 2025
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-869653

Palestinian Authority schools praise martydom, use October 7 attack in math lessons.
Beyond reducing October 7 to a math exercise, the nine-year-olds were also praised by their teacher in written feedback for writing questions relating to martyrdom, including child martyrdom.
August 25, 2026
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/article-906558

Anti-Israel Activists Celebrate Hamas Attacks that Have Killed Hundreds of Israelis.

Hamas Attack Draws Cheers from Extremists, Spurs Antisemitism and Conspiracies Online.

October 07, 2023

Published: 10.07.2023.
Updated: 10.14.2023

Extremism, Hate or Terrorism.

From: Center on Extremism

Following Hamas’s October 7, 2023, surprise invasion of Israel that has reportedly killed at least 900 Israelis, left thousands injured, and included the kidnapping of more than 100 children and adults, many prominent anti-Israel activists and organizations have expressed their full support for the Hamas actions on social media platforms such as X and Instagram. Anti-Israel campus groups, community organizations and journalists are framing Hamas’s terror attacks as part of an anti-colonial struggle in which any and all forms of “resistance” are justified.

Among those expressing complete support for Hamas’s deadly attacks: The Nation’s Palestine Correspondent Mohammed El-Kurd, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters, popular New York City-based anti-Zionist group Within Our Lifetime and many other anti-Israel groups across the country. In their view, all Israelis are complicit in Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians, and violence is a warranted response.

These reactions from noteworthy anti-Israel activists and organizations are reflected in a broader ecosystem in which many X users are posting similar messaging. Many posts compare Israel to Nazi Germany or state that Israel was deserving of the attack. Others refer to the news as cause for “a day of celebration,” lauding Hamas for their “bravery” and for crossing “into their colonisers’ territory.”

Examples of prominent activists expressing support for Hamas’ terror attack include:

* Swarthmore College’s SJP chapter released a statement on October 10, justifying Hamas’s violence by saying, “Since early Saturday morning, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have valiantly confronted the imperial apparatus that has constricted their livelihoods for the past seventy-five years.” The statement also said that “decolonization is far from a metaphor confined to the classroom” and that “There exists only a colonizer and colonized, an oppressed and an oppressor. To resist is to survive, and it is our right.”

* National Students for Justice in Palestine released a toolkit for their “day of action”, describing the murders of Israeli civilians as “a historic win for the Palestinian resistance: across land, air, and sea, our people have broken down the artificial barriers of the Zionist entity.” The organization added, “This is what it means to Free Palestine: not just slogans and rallies, but armed confrontation with the oppressors.”
* Anti-Israel activist Nerdeen Kiswani called on people to support the liberation of Palestine “by any means necessary:” “If you support Palestine understand that necessitates supporting our right to defend ourselves and liberate our homeland by any means necessary….Freedom has only ever been achieved through resistance.”

* The ADC, an Arab American organization, claimed that the Hamas’ massacre of Israeli civilians was an expression of Palestinian self-determination efforts: “The unprecedented and ongoing resistance by Palestinians from Gaza, that caught Israel by surprise, did not happen in a vacuum…. Palestinians are asserting their right to self-determination and unequivocally demanding their freedom.”

* Young Democrats of America Black Caucus chair Amber Sherman issued unequivocal support for the Palestinian actions: “As Chair of the Black Caucus I fully support the Palestinian people and the uprising happening in Gaza right now…. I encourage folks to publicly acknowledge the uprising happening in Gaza and stand in support of the Palestinian people.”

* The Boston Mapping Project, an anti-Zionist organization which has called for people to “dismantle” and “disrupt” most of Boston’s Jewish community, posted several times in support of Palestinian resistance, and encouraged its readers to follow the Resistance News Network, an antisemitic encrypted news channel that shares violent anti-Israel imagery and promotes Hamas propaganda.
* The U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) wrote about the Hamas violence: “Our people are waging an anti-colonial, anti-occupation, and anti-Zionist liberation struggle!” In a longer statement, the group said that the violence was a justified response to “over 100 years of zionist [sic] settler-colonialism” and a laundry list of grievances against Israel.

* The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced that it had signed on to the statement of the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, which ignored Hamas’ violence against Israeli civilians and instead called for the United States and world governments to “exert pressure on Israel” to stop its “atrocities” against the Palestinians.

Several Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters expressed support for the attacks on Instagram. SJP is the most prominent anti-Israel student group in the United States. Examples include:

*Palestine Solidarity Alliance of Hunter College posted: “RESISTANCE IS THE ONLY ANSWER: ... Similar to Dief [Hamas military commander], we demand ALL educational institutions and organizations to stand up against the occupation and actively support the Al-Aqsa Flood initiative... The hour of liberation draws near”

*American University SJP re-posted messages from Within Our Lifetime and Palestinian Youth Movement that read: “The resistance Lives!” and “Support Palestinian resistance from Al-Quds to Gaza.”

*Rutgers SJP posted: “Glory to the resistance”.

*SJP at University of California, San Diego re-posted a message from Palestinian Youth Movement: “The resistance lives!”

*SJP at California State University, Sacramento shared a post that read: “As Muslims we have a religious obligation ordained by Allah SWT to support the liberation of Palestine by any and all means necessary.”

*John Jay SJP shared a message reading, in part: “Do not let Western media call this terrorism. This is DECOLONIZATION.”

*SAFE UMich, an anti-Israel group affiliated with SJP, posted: “Long live the resistance. Power to our Freedom Fighters. Glory to our martyrs.”

*The University of Virginia chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine stated that the Hamas massacres were only the first step: “The events that took place yesterday are a step towards a free Palestine…. freedom is not a matter of it but when. We stand in solidarity with Palestinian resistance fighters….”

*On his Substack, academic and activist Norman Finkelstein wrote that Hamas’ actions “warms [sic] every fiber of my soul” and compared the attacks to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising..

*About 35 student associations at Harvard University signed on to a statement from the Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee and Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine which said, “We... hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible” for the violence perpetrated by Hamas.

*New York City-based anti-Israel group Within Our Lifetime posted on Instagram:

“Supporting Palestinian liberation is supporting whatever means necessary it takes to get there.... we must defend the Palestinian right to resist zionist [sic] settler violence and support Palestinian resistance in all its forms. By any means necessary. With no exceptions and no fine print.”

*Activist and poet Mohammed El-Kurd, The Nation’s Palestine Correspondent, posted on X:

“Occupation, colonization, and land-theft are the root cause of the ‘conflict.’ Everything else is retaliation.”

*Dylan Saba, an attorney with Palestine Legal, a nonprofit that provides legal aid to anti-Israel activists, posted on X:

“Glory to the resistance and the people of Palestine....l could not be more proud of my people who continue to demonstrate unthinkable bravery in their struggle for liberation”

*Palestinian Youth Movement, an anti-Israel group active on many university campuses (and which frequently partners with SJP and JVP), called Hamas’ terror attacks “legitimate resistance” and posted a photo on Instagram of Palestinians celebrating on top of a captured Israeli vehicle:

“We continue to stand alongside our people in Gaza and across Occupied Palestine in their legitimate resistance against the occupiers. In our Martyrs’ names, the struggle for liberation and return continues. Palestine will be free.”

*Transnational anti-Zionist group Samidoun posted an image of individuals carrying weapons and added, in part:

“The resistance is rising throughout occupied Palestine, smashing the siege on Gaza...as Palestinian resistance forces fight to advance return and the liberation of Palestine.”

*.Activist group Adalah Justice Project, which frequently partners with JVP and SJP:

“The natural reaction to colonization and oppression is resistance.”

*Al-Awda NY, a New York City-based anti-Zionist group, and fellow anti-Zionist group Palestinian Assembly for Liberation (PAL), explicitly and effusively expressed their support for Hamas’ actions:

“The Palestinian Assembly for Liberation and Al-Awda NY send their highest salutations to the Palestinian Resistance, the Freedom Fighters..... Now more than ever is the moment for all Palestinians and allies globally to stand proudly, in full support of the brave Palestinian Freedom Fighters...”

*On Instagram, Nevadans for Palestinian Liberation espoused a historic antisemitic theme about Jewish control over politics in a message supporting the “resistance:”

“When you see spineless politicians who are bought by Israeli lobbyists flood your timeline today with words of condemnation today ask yourselves where they were for the past 75 years. Long live the resistance!!!!”

*Anti-Israel J.. group IfNotNow released a statement blaming Israel and the United States for provoking Palestinians into the attacks:

“Their blood [civilians] is on the hands of the Israeli government, the US government which funds and excuses their recklessness...”

*.. anti-Zionist organization J.. Voice for Peace (JVP) also blamed the terror attack on Israel:

“Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence.... The bloodshed of today and the past 75 years traces back directly to U.S. complicity in the oppression and horror caused by Israel’s military occupation.”

Anti-Defamation League.
Oct 7, 2023.
https://www.adl.org/resources/article/anti-israel-activists-celebrate-hamas-attacks-have-killed-hundreds-israelis

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