We’ve written before about how posters with photos of those taken hostage by Hamas terrorists are being torn off of street poles and walls at an alarming frequency not just here in the United States but in Europe and elsewhere.
In New York City in particular, which is home to the highest Jewish population in the world outside of Israel, the incidents are increasingly commonplace, with one of the most notorious and widely viewed ones being the three NYU students who were seen ripping down posters of Israeli hostages and carrying the crumpled pieces of paper away, presumably to put them in the trash:
In some other instances caught on video, the Hamas sympathizers were named and shamed, and subsequently were either suspended from or fired from their jobs.
But anyone who thought that it couldn’t get any more sickening than ripping posters of captive Israelis down will get even more disgusted when they see the latest tactic in the Hamas hostage poster wars in the Big Apple: Labeling the victims, including children and senior citizens, as “occupiers” instead of tearing the posters down – effectively suggesting that they are the ones who are in the wrong here and that perhaps they deserve to be held against their will by Hamas terrorists in Gaza:
The disgust among New Yorkers is, understandably, particularly strong.
NYC Councilwoman Vickie Paladino is another city leader who, like Menin, is outraged over what’s happened to her city:
Imagine putting up a poster of an eight year old child kidnapped by terrorists and branding her an ‘occupier’, and still thinking you’re the good guys.This is pure evil we’re dealing with. And it’s in our city. It’s in our institutions. And it’s going to take a lot to fix it.
Councilwoman Joann Ariola also weighed in:
Imagine having so much hate in your heart that you would deface a photo of a kidnapped child and label her an “occupier”? This is truly disgusting, and I pray for this girl’s safe return, along with all the others held hostage by Hamas.
Conservative commentator Guy Benson went off after seeing the photos and perhaps with them, the videos, and the violent anti-Semitic “protests” we’ve seen all over the country in mind, could draw only one conclusion:
The horrible truth that people need to start reckoning with is that many in the “pro-Palestine” crowd don’t see civilians as innocents or victims. They see them as Jewish “occupiers” (never mind there’s no occupation of Gaza) deserving of this fate. Again, they just straight-up support Hamas.
“Horrible truth” indeed.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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