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BLM stands with Palestine or Hamas?
“Wow,” began a social media post by a person whose profile picture was an Israeli flag, “I used to support Black Lives Matter. I don’t know if I can anymore.”
This was in reaction to BLM-Chicago’s posting of an image of a paraglider with a Palestinian flag attached to its chute with the caption, “I stand with Palestine.”
BLM-Chicago posted the image after Hamas launched thousands of missiles from the Gaza Strip into Israel during a surprise attack on Oct. 7. Hamas terrorists used paragliders to cross the Gaza-Israel border, while other Hamas terrorists stormed into Israel by car, motorcycle, and on foot. They attacked Israeli forces, massacred hundreds of civilians, and took hostages back to Gaza.
According to US President Joe Biden, Oct. 7 was the bloodiest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
Fact-checkers questioned if certain social media photographs of paragliders were part of Hamas’s surprise strike. In any case, it has been suggested that the image of a paraglider with a Palestinian flag symbolizes how even the most powerful military may be caught off guard.
But is that what BLM-Chicago was trying to say when they posted the paraglider image? Were they simply reminding Israeli security forces to stay alert, or were they applauding Hamas’s carnage? The answer is the latter. BLM…