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# Are Hamas Freedom Fighters?
- URL: https://www.ourfight.uk/are-hamas-freedom-fighters/
- Published: 2023-11-03T23:30:15.000Z
- Updated: 2023-11-04T10:48:36.000Z
- Description: Many on the left view Hamas as a national liberation movement. According to Daniel Ben-Ami there is "no excuse for their ignorance about Hamas’s genocidal aims".
- Author: Our Fight
- Tags: Myth Busting, Hamas

According to Daniel Ben-Ami's article [This is not about ‘liberating’ Palestine](https://www.radicalismoffools.com/this-is-not-about-liberating-palestine/?ref=ourfight.uk), Hamas's objectives are not the liberation of Palestine, but the elimination of Israel and establishment of an Islamic caliphate.

The Council on Foreign Relations also provides a useful background on [What is Hamas?](https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-hamas?ref=ourfight.uk)