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May 13, 2021

Hamas in Gaza Claims to Be Protecting Jerusalem by Firing Rockets at It, and Other Ironies of the Current War

Jerusalem of glue.

To many left-leaning Western activists and journalists, writes Matti Friedman, Jews going to pray on the Temple Mount are in fact “storming” al-Aqsa mosque, a Hamas spokesman calling on his followers to decapitate Jews is “a call for social justice,” and “Hamas rockets are no longer being fired at Israeli civilians, [but] at ‘Israeli apartheid.’” And what of the reality behind these distortions?

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