You have overstated the extent to which that is the case. Nat Turner's rebellion killed many women and children. The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising targeted, among other people, Jewish collaborators and fake opposition groups, not just members of the SS or police battalions. But you've also understated the extent to which Hamas targeted combatants and overstated its responsibility for civilian deaths. Which is why you read like an IDF press release.
Tell me. How exactly did I overstate their responsibility? I didn't deny they targeted combatants as well. I didn't deny that IDF 'friendly fire' racked up the civilian body count. I said they primarily targeted civilians-- who were the majority of mortalities by a wide margin, something *nobody outside of a press release from the perpetrator seriously denies.
And in that regard, it is incomparable to the other historic uprisings.
Perhaps I got the ~760 number wrong; that was from memory. But then, this is Hamas we're talking about, who have never considered civilians-- Israeli
or Palestinian-- worth protecting. If the number was lower, it won't have been for lack of will.
"Slanderous denigration of resistance movements" from the past-- if it should happen-- is less of a problem than whitewashing, because whitewashing results in harmful and false comparisons to the resistance movements of NOW who are relevant NOW and who can succeed or fail NOW and are not just an academic historical question NOW.
The point of distinction I made-- that one primarily targeted agents directly responsible for oppression, and the other didn't-- remains not a "harmful and false comparison" but a true one. You can overlook that fact or deem it irrelevant if you like, but pure denial isn't tenable.
It is asinine to think Hamas is responsible for the actions of random people who take the opportunity to escape their concentration camp.
You're really going to pretend October 7th was a totally organic or spontaneous movement, rather than a planned operation by Hamas and several other organisations. Incredible.
It is also beneath contempt.
What's beneath contempt is this faux outrage. Following a post of emotional appeals to the suffering of an oppressed population, exploited to justify the actions of a military organisation that is deeply involved in the brutalisation of that same population while shamelessly pretending to act on their behalf.
They were funded and established by Israel. They expelled their coalition partners, socialists and secularists, by force in a power seizure. They destroyed the fledgling attempt at democracy. Surprise: the theocratic far-right are
complicit in the oppression, not the saviours of the downtrodden.
