Oakland City Council Open Comments: Calling Hamas a Terrorist Organization is 'Genocidal Propaganda’

UNKNOWN FEMALE 1: “There’s not been beheadings of babies and rapings, Israel murdered their own people on October 7th.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 2: “Calling Hamas a terrorist organization, is ridiculous, racist, and plays into genocidal propaganda that is flooding our media and that we should be doing everything possible to combat.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 3: “I support the right of Palestinians to resist occupation, including through Hamas, the armed wing of the unified Palestinian resistance.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 4: “As an Arab asking with this context to condemn Hamas is very anti-Arab racist.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 5: “The notion that this was a massacre of Jews is a fabricated narrative. Many of those killed on October 7th —“
CHAIR: “Thank you, ma’am, your time is up.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 5: “— including children were killed by the IDF. An amendment condemning Hamas is bald propaganda meant to —“
CHAIR: “Thank you, your time is up.”
UNKNOWN MALE 1: “To hear them complain about Hamas violence is like listening to a wife beater complains when his wife finally stands up and fights back.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 6: “Question. Did anyone else notice that those who oppose this resolution are old white supremacists?”
UNKNOWN MALE 2: “There’s been a lot of atrocity propaganda ranging from claims of beheaded babies to mass rape.”
UNKNOWN FEMALE 7: “Hamas is not a terrorist organization just because the U.S. and Israel deems it so. Hamas is a resistance organization that is fighting for the liberation of Palestinian people in their land.”