Judith Butler, a radical leftist academic who described Hamas as “progressive” and part of the Left, and who defended the atrocities of Oct 7 by the Islamic terrorist group, was one of the top signatories to a petition by a group of anti-Israel activists, calling themselves the ‘ In Our Name Campaign’ claiming that they are “Jews” opposed to “ethnic cleansing”.
By that they don’t mean they are by any means opposed to Oct 7, only to Trump’s plan to resettle the terrorist population of Gaza to prevent them from continuing to kill Jews and every other non-Muslim non-Arab group.
Butler’s name appears alongside a handful of celebrities Joaquin Pheonix, Boots Riley (who is not Jewish) and Wallace Shawn who recently suggested that Hitler had more “decency” than the Jewish State, along with career anti-Israel activists like Sharon Brous, a political ally of Kamala Harris, and Jill Jacobs of T’ruah.
The media and the JTA dishonestly described this as a group of “rabbis”, celebrities and artists.
None of them ever mentioned Judith Butler’s very public pro-Hamas views.
“Hamas and Hezbollah are social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left”, Judith Butler argued.
Here's Judith Butler describing Hamas as a progressive group pic.twitter.com/xjBhvxU2Ol
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After Oct 7, Butler doubled down on her defense of Islamic terrorism against Jews, men, women and children.
“We can have different views about Hamas as a political party; we can have different views about, um, ah, armed resistance, but I think it is more honest and historically correct to say that the uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance. It is not a terrorist attack and it’s not an antisemitic attack.”
“You can be for or against armed resistance, you can be for or against Hamas. But let us at least call it armed resistance,”
“This was an uprising that comes out, that comes from, a state of subjugation and against a violent state apparatus. OK. Let us be clear. You can be for or against armed resistance, you can be for or against Hamas. But let us at least call it armed resistance, and then we can have a debate about whether we think it’s right or whether they did the right thing, whether a different strategy.”
No media outlet has yet reported on Butler’s appearance as one of the leading signatories on this pro-terrorist ad which was also backed by antisemitic groups and pro-terrorist groups.
The JTA’s failure to report on the truth about the ad is another reason why you should encourage your local Jewish paper to drop content from the anti-Israel propaganda wire service.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/hamas-supporter-appears-in-nyt-ad-by-jews-opposing-trump-gaza-plan/