So, world, what do you think of your ‘resistance fighters’ now?

So, world, what do you think of your “resistance fighters” now? 

There they were, masked men handing over the bodies of the Bibas family and Oded Lifshitz, stars of the own sick show. It was monstrous beyond description and should have been recognised for what it was: a tarnish on a world that allowed this to happen.

But they were taking part in live news, given their own chunk of airtime like one side of a “balanced” BBC argument. Here is Hamas, a “legitimate resistance force”, handing over dead babies. Now, cut to the crying Israelis. 

How did we get to this place? Emaciated hostages are handed back with “goodie bags", and the bodies of children and 84-year-old peace activists are described as a “prisoner exchange” – and people just accept it?

How dare our leaders talk of those airy things like “the rule of law” when they are tacitly supporting these creatures? The planet has been turned upside down – what was once deemed wrong now “needs to be seen in context”.

We saw banging drums, music and cheers, a stage and a huge image of Netanyahu as a bloodthirsty monster, placards describing Zionists as Nazis – all reflecting what we have seen on our streets every week since October 7 2023.

Even the Hamas claim that the hostages were killed by Israeli bombs was repeated and repeated, as if it were fact. Whatever their immediate cause of death, only a blind, deaf and wicked judge could possibly find Hamas “not guilty” of their murder.

Too many people in this country – too many in our establishment – not only swallowed Hamas propaganda but encouraged it, marched to its tune, fed it. Every new lie was parroted on our national broadcasters, spread by our charities, given the UN’s imprimatur of authority.

The fact that the BBC showed a “documentary” allegedly narrated by the son of Hamas royalty to commemorate the 500 days since the October 7 attacks should leave an indelible stain on our national broadcaster – but instead remains up on iPlayer for all to see. 

I want to shout and scream and tear it all down. My eyes have been opened since the Simchat Torah massacre to a world which is indifferent to the fact that 16 months ago babies were taken hostage into Gaza and today they came home in body bags. And indifference is the best we get – too often our pain is turned into a weapon to be used against us. We are blamed for saying this is wrong. We are told our people deserved it.

This feels like a scandal beyond compare. But, of course, there have been such scandals before. Emile Zola wrote in 1898: "When truth is buried underground, it grows and it builds up so much force that the day it explodes, it blasts everything with it.” 

In that vein, I conclude with this list:

I accuse the UN of encouraging Hamas, starting with Secretary General Antonio Guterres who gave succour to the terrorists by saying the October 7 massacre “did not happen in a vacuum”.

I accuse Unwra of perpetuating this war by calling the grandchildren of people who left Israel in 1948 “refugees” and encouraging their futile dreams of “right of return”.

I accuse the international political community of cowardice for failing to demand the immediate and unconditional release of all civilian hostages and for, instead, demanding that Israel feeds its enemy.

I accuse the Red Cross of failing to push hard enough to ensure the wellbeing of the hostages and for failing to immediately call out the grotesque hostage return spectacles.

I accuse “humanitarian” charities of parroting the lies of Hamas and not only refusing to fight for the return of child hostages Ariel and Kfir Bibas but becoming involved in trying to stop Israel getting the arms to fight for their children.

I accuse David Lammy of exploiting our pain after he hugged British hostage mother Mandy Damari when she made a public call for the hostages to get humanitarian aid – and then attacked Israel for not giving enough humanitarian aid to Gaza. And for continuing to fund Unwra despite knowing it housed terrorists.

I accuse Sir Keir Starmer of not admonishing his MPs who joined the hate marches.

I accuse the Metropolitan Police and Sadiq Khan of allowing the hate marches –  filled with genocidal chants and blood libels – to terrorise Jewish people and parrot Hamas propaganda since October 8 2023.

I accuse the women’s charities of hypocrisy for failing to once speak up against the sexual violence perpetuated on October 7 or demanding that the female hostages are returned: in doing so they have set the feminist movement back decades.

I accuse the Arab states and countries including Ireland, Spain and South Africa of insincerity for insisting there was a “genocide” going on in Gaza but refusing to offer a home to any Palestinian refugees.

I accuse the BBC and Sky of parroting Hamas propaganda and never once saying that footage from Gaza was censored by the fascist terrorist organisation.

I could go on. I am so filled with rage. I do not know any of these people. I don’t hate them. But in refusing to acknowledge what Hamas is, they are agents of harm to our society. They need to be called out, over and over again.