There is one document that would be enough to close any discussion on the true nature of Hamas: its 1988 charter. Not a simple political manifesto, but the equivalent of their Constitution — the ideological and programmatic foundation of a movement that has never hidden its mission: to destroy Israel and, with it, Western civilization.
Reading those pages means entering the heart of an ideology that has nothing to do with resistance, with the freedom of peoples, or with social justice. It is the codification of religious fanaticism as a method of government, the theorization of violence as a political tool, and hatred elevated to the supreme principle.
A few passages are enough to grasp the abyss. “The Day of Judgment will not come until Muslims fight and kill the Jews,” states Article 7. “There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except through Jihad. Initiatives, proposals, and international conferences are a waste of time and a childish game,” declares Article 13.
“Israel will exist until Islam obliterates it, just as it obliterated others before it,” adds Article 28. There is no room for dialogue, no opening to peace, no recognition of the other. There is only war, extermination, and annihilation. For Hamas, compromise is betrayal, coexistence is heresy, peace is an illusion.
For a Westerner — for those who grew up within a tradition rooted in Greek philosophy, Roman law, Christianity, and the Enlightenment — all this is inconceivable. Our civilization is built on limits to power, the recognition of fundamental rights, and plurality as a value. Hamas represents the exact opposite: a totalitarian project that uses religion as a political instrument, that considers the elimination of the adversary a sacred duty, and that sees difference itself as an enemy to be erased.
And yet, in Europe and even in Italy, there is no shortage of intellectuals, movements, and parties that defend Hamas or at least justify it. This is not naivety but ideological coherence. The Left, in its various forms, shares with Hamas the ultimate goal: to weaken, denature, and destroy the West. Of course, with different methods. Hamas does it with rockets and Kalashnikovs; the Left does it with political correctness, woke ideology, mass immigration, and censorship. But the result is the same: identities erased, roots demolished, cultural fabric replaced with an amorphous and easily manipulated mass.
It is no coincidence that those who today side with Hamas are the same who preach open borders and indiscriminate “welcome.” Immigrationism is not a spontaneous phenomenon; it is a political strategy. Flooding Europe with uncontrolled flows means changing the demographic, cultural, and social features of our cities, creating permanent tensions, and tearing communities apart from within. It is the same logic that emerges from Hamas’ charter, which defines Palestine as an Islamic waqf “consecrated until the Day of Judgment,” denying the legitimacy of any sovereignty other than Islamism.
It is the very rejection of the concept of nation — which the Left, not by chance, shares and reintroduces in its daily lexicon. Because a nation without identity is a nation without defenses, ready to be colonized from outside and corrupted from within.
Israel, in this framework, is not merely a country at war: it is the front line. It is the advanced trench of Western civilization in the heart of the Middle East. Not because it is flawless — no country is — but because it represents a democratic, free, pluralistic model, precisely what Hamas and its international sponsors want to tear down. Those in the West who oppose Israel and defend Hamas, knowingly or not, are working for the enemy. And I am not speaking only of a geopolitical enemy: I am speaking of an enemy of our very Civilization.
The events of recent decades prove this clearly. September 11 was not an isolated episode but the most striking manifestation of a hatred that had already struck and would continue to strike the West: Madrid, London, Paris, Brussels. All attacks carried out in the name of the same jihadist ideology that Hamas codifies in its charter. At the same time, Europe has opened its doors to uncontrolled immigration that has brought not only people in search of a future but also radicalization, ghettos, urban decay, and growing insecurity.
It is no coincidence that, along with neglected suburbs, there has been an explosion of sexual violence and crime linked to illegal immigrants. It is the failure of multiculturalism, the proof that when you stop defending your roots, you end up losing yourself.
The thread that ties all this together is clear: the Left defends Hamas as it defends immigrationism, because both contribute to the same result — the dissolution of the West. Hamas strikes from the outside, immigrationism corrodes from the inside. One and the other are different tools of the same cultural, political, and identity battle.
This is why we cannot afford ambiguity. Defending Israel does not mean siding with a government or a coalition, but defending a bulwark of our civilization. It means affirming that the right to exist is not up for debate, that freedom is worth more than hatred, that our identity is not negotiable. It means firmly rejecting both jihadist fanaticism and the Left’s immigrationist ideology, two sides of the same coin with the ultimate goal of destroying the West.
Those in Europe today who justify Hamas are not defending the Palestinians — who deserve peace and a future — but are backing terrorism and working to erase our civilization. It is time for clarity: either you stand with the West, with Israel, and with the values that made us free, or you stand with those who want to annihilate them. There is no middle ground.
