Over the course of 24 hours, Palestinian terrorist groups led by Hamas and Islamic Jihad have launched a record 400 rockets from Gaza aimed at Jews living in southern Israel and yet the media, so eager to talk about anti-Semitism when they feel it can be weaponized against President Trump, have been silent.

Oh, I know. We're supposed to believe that it's okay when groups who want to exterminate Jews fire rockets at Jews who happen to be Israeli because it's merely anti-colonialist sentiment and an expression of an oppressed people's desperate struggle for statehood and dignity. This view is complete nonsense that is at odds with the historical record, which shows that resistance to Israel has been inextricably linked to anti-Semitism.

The 1988 charter of Hamas, which controls Gaza, is rife with conspiratorial descriptions of Jews and eliminationist rhetoric toward them. It is not about establishing a free Palestinian state that lives alongside a Jewish state, but about wiping out the Jews and taking over all the land.

Below are some excerpts from the English language translation of the charter from Yale Law School:



Our struggle against the Jews is very great and very serious. It needs all sincere efforts. It is a step that inevitably should be followed by other steps. The Movement is but one squadron that should be supported by more and more squadrons from this vast Arab and Islamic world, until the enemy is vanquished and Allah's victory is realised ...



The Prophet, Allah bless him and grant him salvation, has said: "The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. ..."



With their money, they took control of the world media, news agencies, the press, publishing houses, broadcasting stations, and others. With their money they stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution and most of the revolutions we heard and hear about, here and there. With their money they formed secret societies, such as Freemasons, Rotary Clubs, the Lions and others in different parts of the world for the purpose of sabotaging societies and achieving Zionist interests. With their money they were able to control imperialistic countries and instigate them to colonize many countries in order to enable them to exploit their resources and spread corruption there.



The charter even references one of the most notorious anti-Semitic documents in history, the fictional " Protocols of the Elders of Zion," which spread lies about a secret Jewish plot to take over the world:



Today it is Palestine, tomorrow it will be one country or another. The Zionist plan is limitless. After Palestine, the Zionists aspire to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates. When they will have digested the region they overtook, they will aspire to further expansion, and so on. Their plan is embodied in the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion", and their present conduct is the best proof of what we are saying.



Anti-Semitism has always been the root cause of the conflict, as there has always been opposition to any Jewish presence in the region. Arabs rejected a two-state solution going back to 1937 and instigated three wars against Israel before Israel controlled the currently disputed territories in the West Bank. Palestinian Arabs met and allied with Hitler during World War II. More recently Hamas, over the past several decades, has followed through on its charter, targeting Jewish civilians anywhere and everywhere they can manage — killing 30 and injuring 140 in a suicide bombing of Jews who were observing Passover. They train their next generation to hate and want to kill Jews, with childrens' shows featuring such characters as a Jew-eating rabbit.

Now they're once again targeting Jewish civilians with rockets — and the media does not care. The media wants to myopically focus on white supremacist-driven anti-Semitism to the exclusion of all other variations, including a strain that has been the source of a significant conflict, because attacks directed at Israeli Jews doesn't fit neatly into their political agenda.