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Opinion: Try a little honesty about Israel

Photo/Josh Reynolds/The Associated Press / Pro-Palestinian demonstrators wave flags outside the Stata Center at MIT on Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass.
Photo/Josh Reynolds/The Associated Press / Pro-Palestinian demonstrators wave flags outside the Stata Center at MIT on Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Cambridge, Mass.

Scan news accounts of anti-Israel campus and street protesters. Read their demands and manifestos. Collate the confusion after Oct. 7 from the Biden administration.

Here are some of the most common untruths about Oct. 7 and the war that followed.

› “Progressive Hamas”

Gay and transgender student protesters in America would be in mortal danger in Gaza under a fascistic Hamas that has banned homosexual acts and lifestyles. Anyone protesting publicly against Hamas or its allies would be arrested and severely punished.

Women are segregated in most Hamas-run educational institutions. Under the Hamas charter, women are valued mostly as child-bearers.