jmdrake
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I love to paint with a broad brush.
I also have to temper such characterizations with realities.
All I can say about people with Hamas sympathies is: So what?
We are free to think and support what we want.
We looked the other way for many decades the monetary support for the IRA and, of course, Israeli terrorist groups.
Personally, I think that monetary support for all violent foreign entities should be controlled. But we know that would be largely fruitless and would go against the interests of government and special interest NGO's, who spread misery throughout the world.
Why is sympathizing with Hamas any different that having a street rally for Sinn Fein?
Irish street festivals and fundraisers happen in every large city in 'murika.
Was the IRA trying to destroy America? did the people supporting them commit crimes in America?
If so then we should have condemned and prosecuted them too.
That doesn't mean we should then have taken the UK's side or Ireland's side in the dispute over N. Ireland.
If supporting Palestinian terrorism makes you a Nazi then the IRA is far more Nazi than these campus protesters by far. There were murals like this all over Northern Ireland during the troubles.
...You were saying?
You think you made some kind of point?
The IRA were also authoritarian socialists championing a nationalist cause using violence and crime who collaborated with the historical NAZIs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/09/us/politics/09king.html
WASHINGTON — For Representative Peter T. King, as he seizes the national spotlight this week with a hearing on the radicalization of American Muslims, it is the most awkward of résumé entries. Long before he became an outspoken voice in Congress about the threat from terrorism, he was a fervent supporter of a terrorist group, the Irish Republican Army.
“We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry,” Mr. King told a pro-I.R.A. rally on Long Island, where he was serving as Nassau County comptroller, in 1982. Three years later he declared, “If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.”
“We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry,” Mr. King told a pro-I.R.A. rally on Long Island, where he was serving as Nassau County comptroller, in 1982. Three years later he declared, “If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.”