One of the central features of current anti-Semitic propaganda against the state of Israel is the slogan “Free Palestine!” One can find this graffiti around the world as apologists for Hamas define the military fight against the October 7 attacks on Israel as a ‘genocide against Palestinians.’ Despite this propaganda, the reality is that Palestinians, or more accurately Arabs, are more free within the state of Israel than any other location they inhabit. Moreover, the only current Jewish residents in the Gaza Strip are being raped, murdered, or kept as hostages within that sovereignty of Hamas. Even the recent expressed culpability of the Israeli Defense Force for the unintended killing of a humanitarian food group exposes the rhetorical reality that the sovereign leaders of Gaza are genocidaires bent upon erasing Jewish inhabitants ‘from the river to the sea.’ Those ambitions were amplified by Iran’s recent massive attack on the Jewish state as an extension of its daily shouted aspirations to deliver “Death to Israel!”
Many Jacobin reactionaries that plead for Hamas, are unaware of how vast and politically free Palestinians living in Israel are. More than two million Palestinian Arabs live in Israel -- more than 20% of the population. Presently, there are more than 600 Palestinians who freely serve in the Israeli Defense Force. Like orthodox Jewish community members, Palestinians are not required to serve in the IDF. Palestinians and Arabs can vote in the elections of Israel and also serve in the parliamentary body. Masab Yousef, son of West Bank Hamas leader Sheik Hassan Yousef, converted from Islam to Christianity and joined to help Israel’s........