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Anti-Israel Groups Rally on October 7 Anniversary

5 sources · updated 2026-10-09
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What happened

On October 7, 2026, the third anniversary of Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack on southern Israel — in which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage — protests, media posts, and militant statements marked the date. Rallies were held in New York City; an on-scene account reported that some protesters implicitly saluted Hamas and that a smaller group targeted the city’s mayor. Reuters shared a video of damaged buildings in Gaza City, captioned as a view of the city on the anniversary, without referring to the 2023 killings or the hostages. Hamas called the 2023 assault, which it names “Operation Al-Aqsa Flood,” an “extraordinary military achievement” and a “historic and honorable milestone,” while Hezbollah described it as “courageous, distinctive, justified, and legitimate.” Israeli lawmaker Simcha Rothman, chair of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, said he hoped the first indictments of roughly 300 Palestinian suspects held over the attack would be issued in early 2027.
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Unpacked

The anniversary’s attackers marked the day with a victory statement that left-leaning coverage never reports. Right-leaning coverage, via Breitbart, carries Hamas calling the massacre a "historic and honorable milestone." Left-leaning coverage in the Atlantic instead notes some protesters who appeared to salute Hamas. A reader of only that dispatch would miss how the group that carried out the killings framed the anniversary. Right-leaning coverage leads with Reuters posting video of wrecked Gaza City and no mention of the original victims. Left-leaning coverage leads with the New York street scene and a fringe that targeted the mayor. Each side’s opening image of the day is absent from the other. Did any New York rally that day name the Israeli dead, or only the war that followed?
Bottom line

A reader of the Atlantic would finish the anniversary knowing a New York fringe went after the mayor, not that Hamas called the original attack an extraordinary military achievement in a statement carried by Breitbart.

The receipts — 3 facts one side's coverage lacks
  • Hamas called the October 7 attack a historic and honorable milestone in the Palestinian struggle official statementin Breitbart · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • Hezbollah called the October 7 attack a courageous, distinctive, justified, and legitimate operation official statementin Breitbart · absent from left-leaning coverage
  • Hamas demanded that the International Criminal Court arrest Israeli officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for genocide official statementin Breitbart · absent from left-leaning coverage
The Left View
The Atlantic’s New York dispatch frames the gatherings as “Anti-Israel October 7 Rallies” rather than as memorials for Israeli victims. It reports that some protesters marked the day by “implicitly saluting Hamas,” and that “a fringe of that fringe took aim at the mayor,” presenting those acts as visible extremes within a larger anti-Israel demonstration.
The Right View
Right-leaning outlets treat the anniversary as evidence that Hamas remains unrepentant and that Western institutions will not center the massacre. The Daily Wire, HonestReporting, and CAMERA attacked Reuters’ Gaza-only video as consistent with earlier disputed coverage — including a full retraction after Reuters called a murdered Israeli a Mossad agent on an unverified claim from the killer’s family — and noted the caption omitted the “1,200 people Hamas slaughtered” and the “251 hostages.” A companion Daily Wire essay calls the 2023 attack “evil people doing evil things in the name of an evil ideology,” argues that Western excuses “spell the end of our civilization,” and contends that the Palestinian flag is now the emblem of movements that “wish to tear down the West,” because those who shout “Free Palestine” “mean ‘destroy Israel.’” Breitbart highlights Hamas’s and Hezbollah’s praise of the assault, including Hezbollah’s claim that its “political impact” outweighed the military devastation, as proof the perpetrators still cast the killings as legitimate resistance. Commentators also circulated footage of Gazans cheering as Israeli victims’ bodies were paraded, images they said Reuters declined to show.
Our Take (balanced)
The left-leaning source’s strongest point is observational: even its account of the New York rallies records implicit Hamas salutes and a mayor-targeting fringe, which undercuts the idea that anniversary protests were solely expressions of concern for Palestinian civilians. The right’s strongest argument is the day’s documentary record: Hamas and Hezbollah publicly praised the 2023 assault as historic, honorable, and justified, while a global wire service marked the date with Gaza’s ruins and no mention of the massacre’s dead or hostages — a pairing these outlets read as militant triumphalism met by institutional inversion of cause and effect. The central unresolved tension is which event the anniversary is held to commemorate in the West — Hamas’s attack and its continued celebration, or Israel’s subsequent war and the destruction in Gaza.

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