Indeed, many Israelis are critical of some of their nation’s policies, but support for Hamas is anti-Semitic, because Hamas’s policies and actions are based, at their core, on Jewishhatred.

Criticising specific Israeli policies both amongst local citizens and the wider Jewish population is certainly not intrinsically anti-Semitic. Yet many prominent individuals, some out of ignorance, many more with full knowledge of what they are doing, are overtly supporting Hamas.

Some have even praised it. Others, like Italy’s most famous philosopher, Gianni Vattimo, are trying to raise money and provide material support to this anti-Semitic terrorist organisation. Still others refuse to condemn it, while condemning Israel in the strongest terms.

Here is part of what the Hamas Charter, which continues to articulate its governing principles, says about Jews: “The enemies have been scheming for a long time. [Their] wealth [permitted them to] take over control of the world media such as news agencies, the press, publication houses, broadcasting and the like. [They also used this] wealth to stir revolutions in various parts of the globe... They stood behind the French and the Communist Revolutions... They also used the money to establish clandestine organisations which are spreading around the world, in order to destroy societies and carry out Zionist interests.

Such organisations are: the Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, Lions Clubs, B’nai B’rit and the like. All of them are destructive spying organisations... [They] stood behind WWI, so as to wipe out the Islamic Caliphate... They obtained the Balfour Declaration and established the League of Nations in order to rule the world by means of that organisation. They also stood behind World War II.... They inspired the establishment of the United Nations and the Security Council to replace the League of Nations, in order to rule the world by their intermediary. There was no war that broke out anywhere without their fingerprints on it.”