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Eugene Volokh

NYU Law School Student Bar Association Newsletter Expresses Support for Hamas Attack on Israel

The Daily Mail (UK) (Claudia Aoraha) reports (see also N.Y. Post), and includes this screenshot:

I think the student who wrote the message should have every right to express her views, including views that support the killing of civilians. I most certainly don't share the student's views, and I do share the distinction that modern norms generally draw between directly targeting civilians (which is what Hamas has apparently done) and targeting military targets even when some civilians are inevitably killed. I also think we shouldn't forget that the Hamas Charter is expressly committed to "struggle against the Jews" and the destruction of Israel (rather than just a shifting of the borders), and stresses a passage from the sayings of Mohammed stating,

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