Radical leftist academic Judith Butler, who has described Hamas as “progressive” and part of the left, and who defended the Islamic terrorist group’s Oct. 7, 2023 atrocities, was one of the top signatories to a petition by a group of anti-Israel activists calling themselves the “In Our Name Campaign.”
The anti-Israel activists claim to be Jews opposed to “ethnic cleansing.” By that they don’t mean they are by any means opposed to the events of Oct. 7. Rather, they are opposed to Trump’s Gaza relocation proposal.
Butler’s name appears alongside those of a handful of celebrities—Joaquin Phoenix, Boots Riley (who is not Jewish) and Wallace Shawn, who recently suggested that Hitler had more “decency” than the Jewish state—and those of career anti-Israel activists like Sharon Brous, a political ally of Kamala Harris, and Jill Jacobs of T’ruah.
The media and the JTA dishonestly described this as a group of rabbis, celebrities and artists.
None of them mentioned Judith Butler’s very public pro-Hamas views.
“Hamas and Hezbollah are social movements that are progressive, that are on the Left, that are part of a global Left”, Butler has argued.
After Oct. 7, Butler doubled down on her defense of Islamic terrorism against Jews, men, women and children.
“We can have different views about Hamas as a political party; we can have different views about, um, ah, armed resistance, but I think it is more honest and historically correct to say that the uprising of October 7th was an act of armed resistance. It is not a terrorist attack and it’s not an antisemitic attack,” she said.
“You can be for or against armed resistance, you can be for or against Hamas. But let us at least call it armed resistance,” she continued.
“This was an uprising that comes out, that comes from, a state of subjugation and against a violent state apparatus. OK. Let us be clear. You can be for or against armed resistance, you can be for or against Hamas. But let us at least call it armed resistance, and then we can have a debate about whether we think it’s right or whether they did the right thing.”
No media outlet has yet reported on Butler’s appearance as one of the leading signatories on this pro-terrorist ad, which was also backed by antisemitic groups and pro-terrorist groups.
