On the second anniversary of October 7, Hamas is courage and courage is Hamas

Given the odds, given the balance of forces involved, given the landscape, you will scour all of human history and struggle to find a more courageous armed resistance movement than Hamas in Gaza.

Their achievement in holding out against the forces of ethno-fascism in our time for two long punishing year would be a Netflix series, documentary, and Hollywood movie all in one — if the faces of its members were white rather than brown.

Hamas is and are the Jewish Fighting Underground of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943. They are the Sioux Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in 1876. Hamas are the Scottish ‘Sma’ (small) Folk’ who charged the English knights at the close of Bannockburn to secure Bruce’s victory on that fateful day in 1314.

October 7 was a scream from the bowels of the structural oppression of an indigenous people. It was the reassertion and affirmation of the humanity of the Palestinians, and as such as understandable as it was brutal. So many young and not so young Palestinian men have given their lives so that future generations of Palestinians might live free.

Nat Turner’s slave rebellion of 1831 was the October 7 of its day. Nat

Turner:

But oh, my brothers, black folk…