r/moderatepolitics • u/awaythrowawaying • 2d ago

News Article US Justice Department sues UCLA alleging antisemitic educational environment

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-justice-department-sues-ucla-alleging-antisemitic-educational-environment-2026-05-26/
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u/persian_mamba 2d ago

Hamas is the Palestinians elected government. And that government is requesting for the entirety of Israel to be wiped off of earth. I'd say the equivalent of this is to have a Pro- Russia encampment, arguing that the Ukrainian government is massacring the Russian citizens with their bombs, Ukrainians are living on Russian homelands, and Russians should not have to face the consequences of their leader terrorist leader Putin. How would we address the encampments then?

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u/Interesting_Total_98 2d ago

The last election was in 2006. Hamas narrowly won a plurality. A majority of Palestinians today weren't born yet or were too young to vote.

Most recent polls show that support for Hamas is around 20-33%.

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u/knign 2d ago

Hamas narrowly won a plurality.

This is incorrect; Hamas won 74 seats out of 132 in Palestinian Legislative Council, a majority. What is true is that they received only slightly more votes than their main competitor, so their landslide victory was mostly due to much better use of complicated electoral system.

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u/Interesting_Total_98 2d ago

They received 44% of the vote, which means I'm correct. The seat majority is largely the result of half the seats were elected through majoritarian district races.

The seat count tells us how much power they had, but I was talking about how many votes they got.