Do lots of people support Hamas?

This!

This post has been created to stir and to start dehumanising Palestinians. Please stop it's disgusting.

I don’t support Hamas. Support both Israeli and Palestinian civilians.

Good article in Haaretz on this poll.

“It’s hard to compare Russians and Palestinians or Hamas to a classic totalitarian state. But they clearly share two critical features: First, both societies are at war, and their side kicked off the latest round with a terrible act of aggression. (Israel of course has committed terrible aggressions too, but Israeli public attitudes are for another article.) Second, Palestinians don’t live under anything like democracy. In fact, between the Palestinian Authority, Hamas and the Israeli military lording over everything, they live under many layers of non-democracy. Perhaps especially in Gaza, it’s worth asking what people can “really think.”

Huda Abuarquob, a longtime civil society and peace activist, spoke to me by phone from Dura, outside Hebron. “If polling shows high support,” she explained, “it’s their first reaction to an act that put Gazans back on the map.”

In fact, other studies show that Palestinians feel profoundly, existentially, alone. The second post-October 7 West Bank survey, commissioned by a new policy outfit called the Institute for Social and Economic Progress, asked which international actor is Palestine’s most important strategic ally: 56 percent said “none.” The top ally was Russia, then Turkey (18 and 11 percent, respectively); just 8 percent chose “the Arab world.” Palestinians have no homegrown heroes either. In focus groups, the institute quoted a participant saying “I feel that the Palestinian population is orphaned, there is no one to lead them.”

In fact, there was little love for Hamas prior to October 7. In a well-publicized Arab Barometer survey of Palestinians just ahead of the attack, researchers found that anger was mounting. People blamed Hamas for economic and social woes, a stunted life, and no progress toward ending the occupation. A week before October 7, Huda heard from a Gazan man that “there’s a lot of anger against Hamas, and the only thing that can save Hamas now is a war.”

https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/palestinians/2023-11-22/ty-article/.premium/three-quarters-of-palestinians-support-hamas-attack-on-october-7-says-new-poll-why/0000018b-f841-d473-affb-f9e9eeef0000?gift=a8553143108b43eab375a3450657f22a

Children in Gaza are being bombed as we speak. The hospitals are turning into dust. People don't have food or water. The protests are to stop all of this. If someone wants to imagine that the protests are about something else then imagine away. I think it's very obvious that people are furious about what is currently happening.

There are plenty of Jewish people at these matches too.

If you believe that the free Palestine marches are for Hamas then I do not believe that you actually want to march.

I think you are being disingenuous and are actually trying to stir so that you can post that link.

I can't believe anything that comes out of Israel anymore, so if this story is true I will never know. I do however condemn Hamas and what happened on 7th October.

What Hamas did or didn't do does not justify what Israel are doing now and their actions before Oct 7th.

The dehumanising of Palestinians is evident on this forum and the victim blaming, especially of children is disgusting and unforgivable.

I wish people would say what they really mean (one mumsnetter did when she said she doesn't see Israeli children and Palestinian children as equal) instead of trying to deflect and confuse the narrative.

Unfortunately there is a proportion of people on the pro-Palestine marches who do support Hamas or who propagate the same anti-Israeli hatred which means others who attend for more compassionate reasons become useful idiots in the propaganda war.
I share your concerns OP that left-wingers, who are happy to jump up and down with Me Too hashtags and cancel elderly actors over historic allegations are turning a blind eye to appalling sexual violence rather than support anything related to Israel
Jemima Goldsmith (born Jewish but married a Muslim and has Muslim children) has been supporting Jo Cox's husbands campaign which is anti-hate rather than supporting either "side"

YABU for posting this here instead of its designated topic.

I think the reason why is the plight of the Palestinians began long before Hamas came along. Condemning Hamas won't change what has been going on for decades. The marches aren't asking for the violence to be de-escalated back to what they were pre-hamas, they're asking for it to STOP.

No fucking way.

There are many stories such as the one linked above. There is a piece on YT by Jewish women emergency workers who handled the bodies of slain girls and women on and after 7/10.

The atrocities are frankly sub-human and cover mutilation and objects being forced into very young girls in some cases, including a hand grenade. Simultaneous rape and execution, and a foetus cut from a living woman in one case. Utterly depraved.

If the same had happened in the UK perpetrated by a near neighbour, I do not think people would be too concerned about restraint.

I cannot begin to understand the mentality behind such actions.

I think quite a few do support Hamas or at least choose to be ignorant over what Hamas do.

I saw somebody on my fb this morning supporting a tweet about the Israeli hostages hugging their Hamas captures as they were realised claiming that this showed the Israeli hostages must have been treated well. Completely ignoring the fact these poor people had been held at gunpoint for 7 weeks by men who had slaughtered their friends and family and had then most likely forced the hostages to hug them to both further traumatise them and get some propaganda images.

Well ofcourse if you don't like what you see then don't go to them. I personally haven't been to any this time but I have in the past and there was no antisemitism at the ones I joined.

There was a ceasefire. Hamas broke it.

I think it's remarkably naive to think there is no support for hamas in the UK.

Of course some will support Hamas &/or be antisemitic but no one will actually own up to that!

The marches are to support a ceasefire. If you want to support a ceasefire then go to the marches. If you don't want to support a ceasefire then don't.

I certainly don’t. But i do support Palestinian civilians and would happily march for ceasefire.

Conflating Hamas with Palestinians is problematic and dangerous.

Let's not forget the Israeli government supported Hamas and got them into power. They were concerned Palestine was moving towards a two state solution and offered economic privileges to Hamas.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/amp/

I think around 50% of Palestinians did when they were last polled.

I don’t know 1 person irl that supports hamas. Everyone I encounter severely dislikes them

No one I know supports those evil animal terrorists.