Haviv Rettig Gur
This guy has no love lost for Israel and doesn't mince words about the war. But he also thinks Hamas are a bunch of mass-murderers who gladly offered up Gaza as a sacrifice to their religious vision. Unfortunately for him, a very great deal of the activist core of the pro-Palestinian movement in the West agrees with Hamas: Gaza's suffering, they insist from their comfortable homes far away, is a worthy sacrifice to lay on the altar of Israel's destruction. And if Israel's destruction requires more Palestinian suffering, never-ending Palestinian suffering, so be it. As with every Western ideology built on the lived experience of others, the basic purpose of the other is to satisfy a Western ideological fantasy. This is a new version of the same old orientalism. Now they're gunning for Ihab for daring to go off-script. Palestinians may yet emerge into a new day and a better future. But it will happen despite the best efforts of this pro-war, pro-genocide activist world that claims to speak for them. Not because of it.
Ihab Hassan
Once again—in less than a week—I’m the target of a major smear campaign and coordinated attack by Hamas supporters and terrorist-sympathizer accounts. They’re not just spreading lies and defamation—they’re openly inciting violence and murder against me. This isn’t criticism—it’s