Mick Hartley

More from the Jerusalem Post. Aliza Pilichowski – Supporting Palestinians has turned into normalizing terrorism. If the West opposes violence to achieve political goals, how can it stand with the normalisation of violence and terror in the movement for Palestinian statehood?

Palestinians never rejected terrorism, and therefore, they never achieved a state. The Palestinian Authority, a governing body created with world support when it pledged to oppose and actively stop terrorism from its people, has failed miserably and has instead actively supported and incentivized Palestinian terrorism. Its dreadful “pay to slay” program cynically masquerades stipends for Palestinian terrorists as welfare payments. It has yet to condemn the October 7 terror attacks, and many of its leading officials publicly praised them. The PA has become another piece of the Middle East terror infrastructure.

The line that separated support for Palestinian statehood from supporting Palestinian terrorism has become so blurred that it is almost impossible to perceive. In statements of world leaders, in demonstrations worldwide and by Palestinian activists, support for a Palestinian state has become synonymous with support for Palestinian terrorism.

While most Palestinian supporters in the Western world won’t directly say they support Palestinian terrorism or the October 7 attacks, they use words that effectively mean the same thing to Palestinian ears. In demonstrations around the world, Hezbollah and Hamas flags are proudly raised, and chants for the death of Jews and supporting resistance by any means are regularly heard on the streets of Western cities.

These messages telegraph the intent of the demonstrators to end the State of Israel through the violent murder of millions of Jews. It wasn’t surprising to see Palestinians and their supporters begin displaying Nazi swastikas at rallies in New York City all the way south to Palestinian-owned businesses in Florida.

When did supporting Palestinian statehood become a front for advocating for terrorism and genocidal acts against Jews? When did Western cities allow their streets to become centers of antisemitism and rallies for Palestinian terrorism? How has kidnapping and rape not become something so abhorrent that anyone who stands for it is shunned – as opposed to being allowed to march down city streets screaming for more of it!?