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In today’s academic and activist circles, the Israel-Palestinian conflict is increasingly presented through the lens of oppressor versus oppressed. Israel is cast as the “occupier,” the alleged oppressor, while Palestinians are portrayed as the oppressed victims.

This framing is not only misleading but dangerous: it excuses Palestinian violence as if it were a natural response to oppression. Most disturbingly, it sanitizes Hamas — the jihadist terrorist organization whose charter calls for the eradication of the Jewish people and the annihilation of Israel — by portraying it as a resistance movement. That distorted lens is what allowed many in the West to downplay or even rationalize Hamas’s barbaric slaughter of Israelis on October 7, 2023.

At the heart of this narrative

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