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There are people in Hamas and Hamas supporters on this site- they claim that Oct 7 never happened, it was a false flag operation, IDF soldiers actually attacked israelis that day, that the hostages are in love with the terrorists keeping them hostage. That there were no rapes or murders that took place on Oct 7.
Does or does not the IDF engage in the same form of fact denialism? Please show me links where IDF is claiming they arent engaged in a war in Gaza. They may disagree about very specific events like the hospital bombing- and from the evidence Ive seen there is reason to believe that those missiles did not come from IDF. but there is no blanket denialism of the war itself. theres justification of war- but not really a complete denial in the same way.
those are two very different things. Its not just a difference in degree its a difference in kind
I know both sidesing this issue makes us feel like our actions don’t have consequences and there is no moral clarity to be found. But it’s just not true that both sides are doing the same thing at all.
Needs to be discussed because the present discourse in NLUs and JGLS is only focused on criticising Israel and does not criticise Hamas. We see certain student societies even glorify Hamas by calling them”freedom fighters”.