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March 8, 2024

Don’t Ignore the Religious Roots of Hamas’s Brutality

The atrocities weren’t a byproduct of war but an end in themselves.

Ask the Harvard students who created the offending social-media post what cause they’re supporting, and they might say something about “Palestinian rights,” or “justice in Palestine.” But Hamas is not interested in Palestinian rights, and its mission is a religious one, to which the barbarism displayed on October 7 is essential. Alvin Rosenfeld writes:

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