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FYI, voicing support for terrorists undermines sympathy for a cause. (Legitimacy of violence is an old, controversial and unresolvable question. The politics of coalition building are less obscure.)
Plenty of people supported the ANC, while the ANC was considered a terrorist organization, still Apartheid South Africa ended and the ANC is now in government.
Plenty of people supported the IRA, but still Northern Irish Catholics got civil rights and a political avenue for Irish reunification. Shin Féin even holds a plurality in Northern Ireland’s assembly and is increasing in popularity in the Republic of Ireland.
Plenty of people supported violent resistance of the Civil Rights movement (including Martin Luther King). Though the Civil Rights movement never ventured into terrorism, other black liberation groups certainly did, this did not undermine the cause of black liberation. And if we go even further back in history, support for John Brown—a terrorist and a full blown insurrectionist—did not undermine any sympathy for the abolitionist movement.
Terrorism is not an ideal, it’s a tactic. One the zionists and america uses, but when they do it’s ok?
I labeled hamas a “people” because they are not a nation state - not even close.
Sure. But citing comments like yours is how you get an Israel aid package passed by the Congress. (I didn’t lobby on it, but I did on Ukraine, and showing that there are people who support horrible means for their end is a good way to deplete marginal support for that end.)
I guess I just don’t understand - why it’s ok to criticize “one side’s” tactic and not the other when one of the sides is killing by the thousands, while claiming to be “mowing the lawn.”
You probably don’t.
> why it’s ok to criticize “one side’s” tactic
One of the best assets for people trying to bring down a hammer on Israel are its right-wing politicians explicitly calling for bombing civilians and annexing Gaza. You generally want extremists on the other side to voice support for unpopular things.
I don’t.
Their brethren have murdered multiple Europeans for just walking the streets of their own cities.
I will never support jihadists, no matter what sort of cause they profess to defend.
Their important common denominator is "we believe in bringing about submission to Allah at the point of the gun". I would advise any "unbeliever" to stay the hell away from any such group.
When Hamas lets Christians live, they are doing what Islam considers right. Outright pagans (polytheists) would be a different story.
Still, they enforce Islamic law where they rule. You cannot be openly gay, you cannot openly proclaim that you no longer believe in Allah (apostasy), a Christian man cannot marry a Muslim woman.
The fact that some other fundamentalists go further than Hamas doesn't make Hamas non-fundamentalists.