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Anti-Hamas protests erupt in Gaza. Where are our pro-Palestine 'allies' now? Opinion [View all]
The anti-Hamas protests that erupted last week in the Gaza Strip are a testament to what many of us from Gaza have been saying for years: The people of this besieged enclave are exhausted by Hamas’ rule and ready to break free from the terrorist group.
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Where was the outrage from the "pro-Palestine movement" activists? Where were the protests in Western capitals for Oday [Nasser Al Rabay, tortured to death by Hamas]? Nowhere. Because he did not fit into their ideological framework because his killing was not useful and too inconvenient to their narrative.
Meanwhile, when a protester with a distinctly different profile ‒ Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student ‒ finds himself detained in the United States, the pro-Palestinian activists who claim to advocate for the oppressed wasted no time in flooding Western streets with protests calling for his release. His arrest became an emblem of resistance, sparking global campaigns to bring him home. But what about the young Palestinian from Gaza who, without the protection of international institutions, was tortured to death for his dissent? Oday was left to rot in obscurity, his brutal murder by Hamas nothing more than an inconvenient fact for the same movement that fervently defended Mahmoud.
This stark contrast is not only a failure of solidarity ‒ it's also an indictment of the hollow, opportunistic nature of the so-called pro-Palestine movement. Mahmoud, a student in the West, was elevated to the status of martyr. Oday, a young man from Gaza, was left to die at the hands of the very regime that Western allies refuse to confront. The hypocrisy is staggering.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/voices/2025/04/04/gaza-protests-hamas-palestinians-terror/82774426007/
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Where was the outrage from the "pro-Palestine movement" activists? Where were the protests in Western capitals for Oday [Nasser Al Rabay, tortured to death by Hamas]? Nowhere. Because he did not fit into their ideological framework because his killing was not useful and too inconvenient to their narrative.
Meanwhile, when a protester with a distinctly different profile ‒ Mahmoud Khalil, a former Columbia University graduate student ‒ finds himself detained in the United States, the pro-Palestinian activists who claim to advocate for the oppressed wasted no time in flooding Western streets with protests calling for his release. His arrest became an emblem of resistance, sparking global campaigns to bring him home. But what about the young Palestinian from Gaza who, without the protection of international institutions, was tortured to death for his dissent? Oday was left to rot in obscurity, his brutal murder by Hamas nothing more than an inconvenient fact for the same movement that fervently defended Mahmoud.
This stark contrast is not only a failure of solidarity ‒ it's also an indictment of the hollow, opportunistic nature of the so-called pro-Palestine movement. Mahmoud, a student in the West, was elevated to the status of martyr. Oday, a young man from Gaza, was left to die at the hands of the very regime that Western allies refuse to confront. The hypocrisy is staggering.
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