I Don’t Support Hamas, I Support Humanity
- Gregory Andrews
- Jul 16
- 2 min read
If you’ve spoken out against the unfolding genocide in Gaza, you’ve likely heard it too:
“So you support Hamas?”
“You’re excusing terrorism?”
“You care about Palestinians but not the Israeli hostages.”
Let’s be clear. This is a deliberate tactic. It’s a false binary designed to silence people who stand up for human rights, international law, and basic decency.
So let me say it plainly: I condemn the atrocities committed by Hamas. Murder of civilians is abhorrent. Taking of hostages is inexcusable. I’ve said it before. There’s no justification for the horror that Israeli families experienced on 7 October. I grieve for them.
But condemning Hamas doesn’t mean staying silent as Israel bombs schools, hospitals, refugee camps and homes in Gaza. It doesn’t mean pretending that carpet-bombing one of the most densely populated places on Earth is “self-defence.” And it doesn’t mean accepting starvation, displacement, and slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians, many of them children, as some kind of collateral damage.
This isn’t a football match. You don’t have to pick a team. You don’t have to choose between opposing terrorism and defending human rights. We can, and should, oppose both Hamas’s crimes and Israel’s war crimes.
But the people trying to shut us up don’t want nuance. They don’t want humanity. They want to delegitimise the truth by branding everyone who protests as a terrorist sympathiser.
That’s dangerous. And it’s dishonest.
I was Australia’s National Focal Point for the Responsibility to Protect (R2P). That role exists because the world has seen what happens when we ignore warning signs. When we let revenge, fear, and propaganda silence the truth.
R2P means all countries have a duty to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity everywhere. It means holding all perpetrators accountable, whether they wear uniforms or not, whether they lead a militia or a modern democracy.
Right now, that means calling what’s happening in Gaza for what it is: Genocide.
I don’t support or oppose Hamas or Israel. I support humanity. And I oppose genocide.
And this: https://mondoweiss.net/2025/07/israel-isnt-just-killing-palestinians-seeking-food-aid-its-killing-people-waiting-in-line-for-water-too
Yes, Greg, you are right... most of the murder victims are children. Orphaned children living a nightmare that no parent can ease. Babies left to die, while suffering terrible agony. Mutilated bodies without any form of medical relief. Unendurable pain. How can any government attempt to justify such atrocities.
Reasoned calm and empathetic, and ethical reaponse. Thank you for your humanity and advocacy
Universal condemnation is the only moral response to a war against children. There can be no justification for it. The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has no humanity and is a cynical and devious cover for continued slaughter. The United States, and to some extent Australia, are complicit in this crime. Only a cessation of bombing, shooting civilians, corralling, and opening of borders to real aid agencies such as MSF, UNICEF, Red Cross/Crescent , and others will stop this suffering.
It is curious that the more technologically advanced we become the more binary society and it's leaders seem to be.