The Hamas Covenant: a proof that antisionism and antisemitism are closely linked.

In the Hamas covenant two statement concisely summarize the anti semitic ideology of the islamist movement.

"Israel will rise and will remain erect until Islam eliminates it as it had eliminated its predecessors." 

(Hamas covenant - preamble)

"Israel, by virtue of its being Jewish and of having a Jewish population, defies Islam and the Muslim" (Hamas covenant - article 28).

When is it useful to cite these statements: 

1) When people tries to portray Hamas as a defensive movement that use terror only because of "israeli oppression". This charter was written in 1988 and is fundamental to understand that Hamas is not a movement of resistance but a supremacist movement, fighting for the supremacy of Islam over the Jews. 

2) When statement relative to the possibility of negotiating with Hamas as if it was a simple "resistance" movement. No resistance movement, a little bit worthy of humanity, could say such a thing about his enemies.

3) These sentences (especially the second one) also prove that, for Hamas, antisionism and antisemitism are closely linked.  This is important to notice since many pêople seem to profess that they are antisionist but not anti semitic. Whether its true or not, if theses people support hamas, they do support an anti-semitic movement

Hamas covenant: http://fas.org/irp/world/para/docs/880818.htm

A very good analysis of Hamas can be found here: