Ari Hoffman condemns pro-Hamas rally at University of Washington

The Post Millennial's Ari Hoffman, who is an Orthodox Jew, joined Fox News on Friday and slammed the pro-Hamas celebrations that have been occurring on college campuses throughout the US. One event that captured Hoffman's attention was a vigil being held for "the martyrs of Palestine" at the University of Washington, which Hoffman told the network was "literally a vigil for terrorists."

Hoffman, who was speaking at the University of Washington about Israel during the time of the Hamas vigil, told the network: "What you saw happening tonight on campus, this vigil for these terrorists, was about trying to reclaim October 7th. Not as a day where 1400 Israelis, 1400 Jews were massacred. They're trying to make it something about the Palestinians."



"They're doubling down on the same fake narrative about this hospital being bombed that Rashida Tlaib is spewing," Hoffman said.

Hoffman, who is based in Seattle and has a wildly successful radio show on 570 KVI, explained that he was accosted last week at the University of Washington campus when he went to observe a Hamas rally organized by progressive student activist organizations, in which students and faculty members celebrated the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel.

"I was on the University of Washington campus last week when they had this big rally, this big march for Hamas, when they were literally chanting, 'From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,' and they mean free of Jews," Hoffman explained.  "All Jews out of the land."

"I had people literally tell me to my face that they were celebrating the fact that babies had their heads cut off in the invasion in Israel," he added.

According to video footage taken during the Hamas vigil, one of the speakers proudly claimed that both Israel and the United States are to blame for the Palestinian terrorist attack, in which Hamas slaughtered more than 1400 Israeli civilian men, women, and children, and kidnapped more than 200 that are still held hostage in Gaza.

"Biden, hear my words very carefully. The quote 'other team' is not to blame. Your and Israel's hands are covered in blood," she said.  "What is happening right now is a planned and vile attempt at completely erase Palestine and the Palestinians."

In regards to "Jewish" groups and their involvement with anti-Israel demonstrations, Hoffman explained that they do not represent the Jewish community and said: "It's just like how anybody can identify as anything these days...and by identifying as Jewish this gives them some kind of legitimate...but they don't actually know anything."

Hoffman concluded by explaining that "every single Jew" has been impacted by the terrorist attacks.

"Everybody knows somebody who died, or somebody who was kidnapped, or somebody who is on their way to fight, or somebody who is being called up right now, or somebody who is living in a bomb shelter," Hoffman told the Fox News hosts.

Universities across the United States have become the center of anti-Israel and pro-Hamas celebrations, with student organizations issuing letters and organizing rallies celebrating the Hamas attacks and condemning Israel. Harvard University became the epicenter of controversy following a viral joint letter from pro-Palestinian student organizations stating that they stand by the Palestinians and that Israel is fully responsible for slaughtering its people.