Plurality of France’s Muslims Back Hamas’ Oct. 7 ‘Resistance’
19th December 2023
A plurality of French Muslims (45%) accept that Hamas’ propaganda and anti-Israel message that the Oct. 7 attack on Israel was justifiable “resistance against colonization,” according to a new poll.
That is an alarming finding for a country that has been hit by massive Islamic terrorist attacks, including the Charlie Hebdo massacre in 2015.
Although a majority of French Muslims denounce Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel as either a war crime (26%) or an act of terror (29%), a larger percentage see it as “des actions of resistance contre la colonisation,” according to the poll published Monday by The Institut Français d’Opinion Publique (IFOP).