I don’t really know what the level of on-the-ground support for Hamas is (beyond the, ahem, surveys you’ve mentioned) but I hardly think the conditions in the UK and the Gaza Strip are comparable when you’re talking about where support for extremist groups comes from. And acknowledging that difference isn’t the same as condoning either group, not in a million years.
Plotting the nonsense that's pervaded the area ever since the Balfour Plan makes one a terrorist sympathiser apparently... which is just a little bit crass and ridiculous.
Asking how we get to this point is apprently not on either.
(And for the avoidance of doubt, that isn't the fault of Israel and solely Israel, not that I should really have to point this out! Nor should I have to point out that attacks on innocent civilians designed to provoke and stir up conflict are also to be condemned but hey, here we are)
Anyway, this thread is getting absurd (again). More fool me for looking when I could have guessed what it'd be like after the Ukraine one!