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Michael Kuenne
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The Masked Cowards Cheering for Hamas

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Across Europe and the broader West, pro-Palestinian marches have become a breeding ground for antisemitism, with protesters cloaking their faces behind masks and scarves, hiding their identities as they cheer for Hamas and its reign of terror. These aren’t noble freedom fighters; they’re enablers of an ideology that threatens Jews everywhere. It’s time to tear off the disguises and hold them accountable because the Jewish community in Israel and the diaspora deserve nothing less.

They deserve a world that defends them with unrelenting ferocity, not one that tolerates cowards cloaking their venom.

In Western capitals, we see throngs waving Palestinian flags, chanting slogans that echo Hamas’s calls for Israel’s destruction, and shielding their faces as if anonymity absolves them of complicity. These masked figures aren’t just protesting a war; they’re glorifying a terrorist group the US and EU rightly designate as such. Private groups wielding facial recognition technology are stepping in where governments falter, stripping away that cowardice to reveal the truth.

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The Masked Cowards of Western Streets

If you’re bold enough to lionize a group that slaughters civilians, you should be bold enough to show your face.

This isn’t about stifling free speech; it’s about exposing those who cross the line to hate. In the UK, where pro-Palestinian rallies have swelled since the war began, Jewish students at universities like UCL and Manchester report feeling besieged, with masked demonstrators disrupting campus life and scrawling antisemitic graffiti. In France, synagogue-goers face harassment from protesters who shroud their identities while hurling invective. Across Germany, where history should have taught better, marches too often veer into open support for violence against Jews, all under the cover of anonymity.

The Jewish people have endured centuries of persecution, and Israel stands as a bulwark against its modern forms. Yet these Western protesters, many enjoying the freedoms of democratic societies, repay that legacy by amplifying Hamas’s blood-soaked agenda.

In Europe, where immigration policies often welcome students and residents from across the globe, those who abuse that privilege to promote terror should face deportation. Why should nations harbor those who spit on our values while hiding behind masks?

This isn’t about silencing peaceful dissent; it’s about targeting those who march for “jihad,” disrupt Jewish lives, and cheer a group that uses Gaza as a launchpad for atrocities. The fear of “chilling” activism rings hollow when Jewish communities are the ones chilled, forced to bolster security at schools and synagogues because of these faceless throngs.

Israel isn’t just a nation; it’s a defiant roar against every tyrant who’s tried to crush the Jewish spirit. To see it maligned by masked hypocrites is an outrage that demands a reckoning.

Israel and the Jewish diaspora deserve unwavering Western support. Unmasking these protesters is a moral imperative. It says to every Jew in Tel Aviv, London, or Paris: you are not alone.

It tells those who hide their hate: your time is up. These faceless cheerleaders of terror are fleas on the back of a lion.

Let justice strike, and let the West stand tall beside a people whose light no darkness can dim.

About the Author
Michael Kuenne works as a journalist on antisemitism, extremism, and rising threats to Jewish life. His reporting continually sheds light on the dangers that come from within radical ideologies and institutional complicity, and where Western democracies have failed in confronting the new rise of Jew-hatred with the due urgency it does call for. With hard-hitting commentary and muckraking reporting, Kuenne exposed how the antisemitic narratives shape policymaking, dictate public discourse, and fuel hate toward Israel. His writings have appeared in a number of international media outlets, including The Times of Israel Blogs. Kuenne has become a voice heard for blunt advocacy in regard to Israel's right to self-defense, critiquing ill-conceived humanitarian policies serving only to empower terror, while demanding a moral clarity which seems beyond most Western leaders. With a deep commitment to historical truth, he has covered the resurgence of Holocaust distortion in political rhetoric, the dangerous normalization of antisemitic conspiracies in mainstream culture, and false equivalencies drawn between Israel's actions and the crimes of its enemies. His reporting dismantles sanitized language that whitens the record of extremism and insists on calling out antisemitism-whether from the far right, the far left, or Islamist movements, without fear or hesitation.
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