Since October 7, there’s been an aggressive effort to rebrand Hamas terrorism as “armed resistance”.

Now, Peter Beinart, speaking at the Harvard Divinity School which recognizes only one deity, Allah, had a curious term of art to describe the mass murder of Jews.as “Palestinian armed resistance against civilians”.

Beinart returns to this term over and over again, describing the terrorist massacres of Jews as “Palestinian armed resistance against civilians”.

The premise of “resistance” is that at least in theory, the perpetrators are defending themselves against an attack. But what does “armed resistance against civilians” mean?

How are unarmed women and children the attackers? How is massacring them resistance rather than genocide?

The whole point of using the term “resistance” is to equate Islamic terrorists to the French Resistance fighting Nazis or the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto attacking the SS. Now “Resistance” has not only been rebranded to mean killing Jews, but massacring Jewish unarmed men, women and children just going about their lives..

“Resistance” has come to be indistinguishable from Nazism. In both terms it whitewashes the religiously and politically motivated massacres of Jews.