Last week, France's president Emmanuel Macron stated that the October 7 massacre was “the largest anti-Semitic massacre of our century.”
Who could possibly argue with that? Hamas is unapologetically antisemitic. Its (still current) founding charter includes phrases like
"Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious"
and
"The Day of Judgement will not come about until Muslim fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him"
and
"We should not forget to remind every Muslim that when the Jews conquered the Holy City in 1967, they stood on the threshold of the Aqsa Mosque and proclaimed that 'Mohammed is dead, and his descendants are all women.'"
Hamas officials, in Arabic, are not shy about their antisemitism.
But UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese knows more about Hamas than Hamas does. She responded to Macron's statements with not only a denial that the October 7 pogrom murdering men, women and children was targeting Jews, but she even justified it as an attack against Israeli "oppression."
The 'greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century'? No, Mr. @EmmanuelMacron . The victims of 7/10 were not killed because of their Judaism, but in response to Israel's oppression. France & the international community did nothing to prevent it. My respects to the victims.
But when a terrorist group attacks thousands of Jews, suddenly the definition of bigotry shrinks down to nothing. We cannot possibly read their minds, even though their own words explicitly prove their hate of Jews. And even if some of them are antisemitic, that has nothing to do with them attacking Jewish communities and Jewish people.
The President of the State of Israel is accused of hating all Palestinians, but bloodthirsty terrorists who brag about murdering Jews are given the benefit of the (nonexistent) doubt that their motives were pure.
When Jews are defending themselves, they are really trying to wipe out a people. When Jews are the victims, the attacks are justified and noble.
No fair minded person can interpret this hypocrisy as anything but pure antisemitism.